Cooking Together~ Making Peanut Butter & Bacon Cookies with TJ
Today we had one of our best friends, TJ, down to our place. We watched Elf, and made up a couple batches of Peanut Butter & Bacon Cookies. We are all bacon enthusiasts and thought the idea of adding bacon to peanut butter cookies sounded interesting. Sooooo, I found a recipe online and we played with it to suit our tastes. So far this is what we’ve come up with. They’re pretty darn yummy. I may try making a maple glaze to drizzle over the tops of them next time we make them.
~Peanut Butter Bacon Cookies~
2 cups all-natural chunky or smooth peanut butter
3 Tablespoons bacon drippings
1 cup brown sugar, tightly packed
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 lb. bacon, cooked, cooled and diced
coarse sea salt or coarse kosher salt
In a skillet over medium high heat, fry up bacon until cooked through and let cool on paper towels until cool enough to dice. Dice up and set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a mixer, or by hand, combine peanut butter, bacon drippings and sugars until well combined, about 2 minutes. Add eggs and baking soda and mix for another 2 minutes.
Set aside a little bacon for garnishing the tops of the cookies. Fold in the rest of the cooked bacon. Roll into large walnut sized balls…
and create a cris-cross pattern with a fork…
add a little bacon garnish and coarse salt to each cookie…
Bake for 10 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool on a baking sheet for five minutes before serving. Will keep in an airtight container for 3 days. Freeze the rest.
Enjoy!
~Melissa
LOVE your creativity….what a fun day! I love odd recipes…I may just have to try this one!!!
Thanks Kris *ahem* I mean, Margarita Goddess! These are not your everyday peanut butter cookies, that’s for sure! They are unique, but not at all strange. I love the salty, smoky flavor the bacon lends to this recipe. Enjoy! XO
Interesting…. Not sure I’ll try this one LOL but you never know. I love seeing the pictures you took!!
It was such a fun day with TJ 🙂
LOVE it! I love the pics – looks like it was great fun….I see T.J.! 🙂 Can’t wait to try these out. I’m thinking that Santa would LOVE these on Christmas Eve.
Perfect choice of cookie for Santa 😉
I was skeptical about this recipe, but “don’t knock it till you try it” are words I like to live by…. especially when it comes to cookies! So, I made these at home this morning…. I halved the recipe though, just in case. I can’t put them down. Wow, what a wonderful combination of flavors!!! Definitely tops my list of yummy cookies to make again and again!! Thanks for sharing, Melissa!!!
You’re welcome, Cami! I am so pleased that you like them. XO
That was a great day. The cookies are amazing. The only problem with them is that they’re too good… We need to make more. Now.
Hee hee…I’ll get you the ingredients and let you make some more Jeffie…
My ‘cookie maker’ is temporarily broken 😉