Peanut Butter BACON Cookies
For Serious? I am highly skeptical of these cookies...
Zoe is gone. She left me…
Well, I guess I don’t need to be so dramatic… she will be back in two weeks. While she is off playing physics-genius in Brazil, I have the whole kitchen to myself. Yep, a deprived meat-eater suddenly has the freedom to cook anything he wants. This could be trouble…
After my first steak and potatoes meal in well over a year, I was looking online for an interesting cookie to make this week and I stumbled upon this crazy creature: Joy’s Peanut Butter Bacon Cookies. Now, I’ve tried chocolate bacon before under the pretense “It’s Chocolate + Bacon…. how could it go wrong?”. Well, I hated it. But, Joy has rarely steered me wrong with her cookie recipes. After some waffling, I decided that if I ever wanted to give it a shot, this was the time to do it. So here goes… cookies + bacon…
INGREDIENTS (makes 12-15 cookies)
- 6 slices of bacon
- 1 cup Peanut Butter (all natural)
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tspn baking soda
DIRECTIONS
Start with the bacon. Cook it up in a skillet like normal, until its nicely cooked. Let it cool on a plate with some papertowels to absorb the extra grease. Then chop it up into bacon bits and set it aside.
Preheat your oven to 350F, and line a tray with parchement paper.
Combine the peanut butter and both types of sugar in a mixing bowl. Mix em’ together for about 2 minutes. Add the egg and baking soda and mix for another 2 minutes. The dough stays crumbly so it doesn’t really mix very well. Just keep going until you either get tired of it, or it looks mixed enough. Lastly, fold in the bacon by hand. That’s your dough.
Making the dough into balls is the most difficult part about these cookies. It’s messy, and the dough really doesnt want to stick together very well. Just dive in and get your hands dirty. Make the dough into ~1.5″ balls (ping pong ball size). Optionally, you could roll the balls in extra granulated sugar if you want. I did not. Place the balls a few inches apart on the tray and use a fork to mash them down a bit. Crisscross the tops or go crazy and make your own pattern!
Bake the cookies for 9-10 minutes. Then let them cool for a few minutes before transfering them to your belly.
So, are they good? I don’t know yet… I am not eating mine until cookie time.
Who woulda thunk. I like peanut butter. I love bacon. It’s a mixed marriage that I think works well. Garlic in Ice Cream, Rhubarb in Pies. Why not! Bravo.
I need a tasting review before I try making these! So questionable, but tempting…!
So the results are in. I give these cookies a whopping 3 stars. I love bacon and I love PB cookies. But I just don’t think the bacon adds anything positive to the cookie. On the other hand a few people really love this cookie, so I think it’s just really hit or miss.
If you want PB cookies without bacon go here.
Why didn’t I think of that? Peanut butter and bacon on toast is an old family favorite, although Zoe probably didn’t tell you that since she went over to the dark side.
I’ll definitely need to try that .. as Jan said, PB Bacon was a great hit (and still is when we are camping and actually have bacon!)
Hmm, I don’t remember bacon and peanut butter on toast. But why would you want to contaminate delicious bacon with anything? (from the mostly dark side)
Mmmmm I miss cookie blog! Is Zoe back from Brazil? We need some new cookies!