Bacon Bourbon Chocolate Chip Cookies
Author: Gravel & Dine
Recipe type: Cookies & Bars
Serves: 2-1/2 dozen
- 7 slices of uncooked bacon
- ¼ c maple syrup
- ¼ c bacon grease, chilled
- 2 sticks butter, softened
- 1 ¼ c dark brown sugar
- 1 c plus 2 T sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 t vanilla
- 2 T bourbon
- 2 c less 2 T cake flour
- 1⅔ c bread flour
- 1 ¼ t baking soda
- 1 ½ t baking powder
- 1 t salt
- ⅛ t cayenne pepper
- ¾ c dark chocolate chips
- ¾ c mini semisweet chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Dredge bacon in maple syrup and lay on the baking sheet.
- Bake for 20 minutes until crisp.
- Remove from oven and allow bacon to cool. Crumble or chop candied bacon into pieces roughly the size of the chocolate chips.
- Reduce oven heat to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Cream together butter, bacon grease, and sugars until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs and beat well.
- Stir in the vanilla and the bourbon.
- Mix together the dry ingredients: both flours, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cayenne pepper. Gradually add to the dough.
- Stir in the bacon and the chocolate chips.
- Scoop using a medium cookie scoop (about 1.5 T) onto prepared baking sheets.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes. Cool on pan for 5 minutes and then remove to wire racks to cool completely.
Recipe by Gravel & Dine at https://gravelanddine.com/bacon-bourbon-chocolate-chip-cookies/
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