Bacon and chocolate chip cookies with a nice, rich porter. ..sounds like dessert to my face! I’m currently in the midst of planning a bacon party that (at this point) will focus entirely on baked goods. For whatever reason, I’m actually trying the recipes ahead of time this round. Perhaps I am growing up and becoming more responsible or perhaps I just really like to bake and post cookies to friends. Regardless of the present and the future, these cookies were the first cookies of my bacon cookie past. These cookies predate my whole “Baconalia” concept and I got the recipe from a friend, rather than from the internet. Seriously. The first time I made these cookies I was completely unaware of the internet’s boundless infatuation with bacon.
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Bacon Yields Free (Admission to Buy Overpriced) Beer
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I love hosting Baconalia parties, but the prepwork leaves a bit to be desired – predominately because it pretty much all takes place immediately before the party. In addition to that being annoying and kinda stressful, it leaves me and my kitchen greasy and gross. (Aside: I’m not sure which I’m more bothered by people seeing greasy and gross.) Anyway! I’ve been playing around a bit with bacon baked goods. Last week I made some bacon-fat ginger snaps; the recipe and photos will eventually follow. The positive and negative of this is that I end up with a fair amount of bacon-based baked goods. When I know how much bacon fat is in each cookie (it’s around 1t) it is less-than-appealing to gorge on a dozen in one sitting. That dozen cookies contains 1/4c of bacon fat. At present my blood pressure and cholesterol are fantastic; I’d like to keep that way at least until I hit 35.
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