Sweet meets salty. Swine meets cookie. Heavenly perfection.
By Robin Runner
Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies topped with Sea Salt
- Total Time: 22 minutes
- Yield: 8-10 1x
Description
Sweet meets salty. Heavenly perfection.
Ingredients
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- 1 cup of all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup of butter, softened
- 6 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 6 tablespoons of light brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 10 ounces of Guittard Super Cookie Chips or regular dark chocolate chips
- 4–6 strips of cooked, cooled and crumbled pieces of smoked bacon
- Sea Salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, soda and salt. Set aside.
- In your stand mixer, paddle attached, cream butter and sugars.
- Then beat in the egg and vanilla until creamy.
- Add the flour mixture, blend.
- Blend well.
- By hand, stir in the chocolate chips and bacon.
- Drop rounded cookie dough onto your baking sheet.
- Sprinkle a tiny bit of sea salt on top of each cookie dough ball.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until lightly golden.
- Let cool and then store in a container with a lid.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 12 mins
Why all the comments about baking powder, since the recipe calls for baking soda?
These came out great-but I tweaked it a little by adding about half a cup of flour and two tablespoons of the bacon fat (solid form). I then rolled them into balls, sprinkled finely crushed bacon on top and then basted them with a small amount of maple syrup. The maple syrup candied under the oven heat creating a nice crunch to the cookie!
Baking powder being too old definitely can cause this issue.
Jan, was your baking powder too old? I have had cookies fail epically because I used clapped out baking powder. Write the date you opened the tin on the tin, and discard after a year. Your cookies should be fine. Or you may have, as Robin suggests, over softened your butter. But check the age of your baking powder too!
Oven heat is 375°F, isn’t it?
I’m going to try this recipe. I’ll tell you after but they seem yummy!
Robin I will, found out I had over softened my butter, didn’t know you could do that. They tasted good.
Jan, I would look at the freshness of your ingredients and try again. Basically chocolate chip cookies with the addition of bacon, which wouldn’t cause the cookie to flatten out. I hope you give these another whirl. oxo
Hmmm, mine melted down into flat blobs, epic fail here darn it.
Just made these – they are so delicious!! Thanks for the recipe!