Carnivore Cookies

On one of the hottest days of the week, I decided it would be easier to make cookies instead of cupcakes.  Note to self:  That was a bad idea.  It was definitely not easier or cooler to make cookies vs. cupcakes.  Maybe next summer I'll take up icecream making...

Anyways...on to what I made.  For some reason I decided to hop on the bacon bandwagon and put it in cookies.  I found a recipe online and decided to go for it.  Now here is where cookies get more difficult.  Not only did I have to make cookie dough but also fry bacon....Nightmare on a hot day.  So I made the bacon - Insert fail here - {In an attempt to not make a mess with the bacon grease and make it easy to clean up, I thought it would be a good idea to pour the bacon grease into a Ziploc bag so I could seal it up and throw it away.  Genius!  Not so much.  As it turns out, hot grease melts plastic bags.  Not such a revelation when you think about it but I'll chalk it up to the heat got to my brain.  Yeah that's it.  End fail.}

Oh and I almost forgot the other part was not just plain old stick butter but "browned" butter.  Which also involved me standing over a hot stove when it was 9 million degrees out.  Ok I exaggerate but it's all about perception and I perceived it to be 9 million degrees.

Once the bacon cooled, I made the batter, which was normal.  Then I added the bacon during the fold in chocolate chip step.

 Here's where I folded in the bacon with the chocolate chips, which were a Hodge Podge of whatever chocolate chips were in the cupboard that day.

 Baked and packed up to go to work.  I think I wound up with around 4 dozen and they were all gone except for two at the end of the day.

You can see the small bit of bacon swirled in next to the chocolate chip.  It was an adventurous not vegetarian friendly cookie to say the least.  Not sure I'd do it again.

Hubby Rating

6

"I personally was not a fan of the bacon, it added a weird texture and took away from the sweetness of the cookie.  I like sweet cookies."

Happy Baking,

-Kristi