Maple Bacon Cookies
Sweet, Salty, and Impossibly Addictive: these Maple Bacon Cookes will be the talk of your gatherings this fall and holiday season!
Servings - 3 dozen
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup maple flavored baking chips
- 4 slices crispy bacon crumbled
Instructions
- Cook 4 slices of bacon, nice and crispy (so that they will crumble easily!) Let cool and crumble.
- In a stand mixer or mixing bowl, cream the butter with the white and brown sugars.
- Add 1 egg at a time, mixing into the creamed sugars.
- Then mix in the vanilla.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flour with the baking soda and salt.
- Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients, 1 cup at at time.
- Mix until cookie dough forms. Add in the maple flavored baking chips and the crumbled bacon pieces mix into the dough.
- Cover the dough with plastic wrap and chill in the fridge overnight.
- About 1 hour before baking, remove the dough from the fridge.
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Place a silicone baking mat on a baking sheet.
- Use an ice cream scoop to transfer the dough onto prepared baking sheet.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 8 to 9 minutes.
- Remove from oven and transfer to cooling rack. Let cool for 5 minutes before enjoying a warm cookie.