Bacon Fat & Chocolate Cookies
Not for the faint hearted. These are the gooey, chunky chocolate chip cookies of your dreams. Well, as long as you’re not a vegetarian! They don’t taste like bacon, or even bacon fat (though if you know what you’re looking for you might be able to detect it).
Bacon Fat & Chocolate Cookies
Not for the faint hearted (or vegans).
Ingredients
- 500 g bacon
- 110 g granulated sugar
- 110 g brown sugar
- 250 g self raising flour
- 1 lrg egg
- 200 g chocolate chips
- 2 tsp vanilla
- ¾ tsp baking soda
- milk, if needed
Instructions
- Fry the bacon and but aside to use how ever you wish later (I suggest a nice BLT sandwich), pour the grease/fat into a large bowl (if your grease is solid, melt it).
- Add to the bowl the brown sugar, granulated sugar, egg and vanilla, and whisk together.
- In another bowl mix together the flour and baking soda, then add to the main bowl, along with the chocolate chips, and combine. This should form a slightly crumbly dough, if it is too dry mix in a small amount of milk.
- Place the bowl in the fridge to chill for 30 minutes.
- Preheat your oven to 180℃.
- Line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Spoon out balls of the dough onto the tray, leaving space between each ball as they will flatten slightly.
- Place tray in the oven and bake for 12-15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 20 minutes (the cookies will be very soft when fresh, cooling allows them to harden up).
- Enjoy the sweet, salty, chocolatey, goodness 😉
Notes
Think about it… this is actually a pretty traditional chocolate chip cookie recipe, most cookie recipes use salted butter, all this recipe is doing is replacing one fat with another. You could also try using a maple bacon to give it that extra flavour (maybe some peanut butter?)