Cowgirls in the Kitchen – Making BACON COOKIES by Cheryl Pierson

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Hi everyone! Cheryl Pierson here, and today I’m bringing you a recipe  for BACON COOKIES for our COWGIRLS IN THE KITCHEN segment!

If you’re like me, you think bacon makes everything better. Well, I must admit, I never thoght about it making a COOKIE better, but I have to say, these do look delicious.

I haven’t made these yet, but I’ve got everything I need to do it with–yes, even that 1/2 cup of bacon grease, which we know is a staple in any southern kitchen. So there is no actual bacon MEAT involved, just the bacon fat renderings.

Another thing I like about this recipe is you can substitute gluten-free flour for the rebular flour, which, in our household, is a must if either of my kids is here to help us eat these!

Recipe and pictures are from a wonderful cooking website called CAKED BY KATIE! Here’s the link if you would like to see more of her wonderful creations.

https://cakedbykatie.com/

Bacon Cookies

  • Author: Katie
  • Total Time: 20 Min
  • Yield: 2 Dozen

Thick and chewy bacon cookies filled with sweet butterscotch chips and salted peanuts. Salty/sweet fans this cookie recipe is for you!

  • 1/2 cup bacon fat, room temperature

  • 3/4 cup brown sugar

  • 1 large egg, room temperature

  • 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract

  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

  • 1/2 teaspoon coarse sea salt

  • 1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour *can sub gluten-free flour 1:1 baking blend

  • 1 cup butterscotch chips

  • 1/2 cup salted peanuts, chopped

Instructions

EQUIPMENT:

  • Mixer

  • Cookie sheet

  • Spoon or cookie scoop

  • Parchment Paper

  • Spatula

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.

  1. In the bowl of a stand mixer cream bacon fat and sugar on high for 3 minutes until light and fluffy.

  2. Add in the egg and vanilla extract and mix until fully incorporated. Scrape down the sides of the bowl occasionally.

  3. Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder, and sea salt into a bowl and mix on low until fully incorporated and dough forms.

  4. Mix in the butterscotch chips and chopped peanuts by hand with a spatula.

  5. Using a spoon or cookie scoop, drop onto parchment-lined cookie trays approximately 2 inches apart and bake for 8-10 minutes or until the edges are lightly golden brown and the centers appear just slightly under-baked.

  6. Let cool on the tray for at least 10 minutes before removing it to a cookie rack. Enjoy!

I would love to know if you make these and what you think of them. I can already tell my family is going to be huge fans when I get them made–probably this weekend. I saw so many unique cookie recipes that I wanted to try when I was decidong which one to include in this post. Do you have a favorite cookie recipe? I’m a cookie freak–I think I love them better than cake! I’m off to find my bacon grease!

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24 thoughts on “Cowgirls in the Kitchen – Making BACON COOKIES by Cheryl Pierson”

  1. They sound interesting and tasty. I think I’d still add some finely chopped bacon, sparingly, of course.

  2. I don’t know about bacon flavored cookies but my best buddy has to eat gluten-free foods; I’m going to share the recipe with her.

  3. They sound like a good cookie, but I am not sure I have the patience to make them. I am not a good baker. I might give the recipe to my great-niece who is a wonderful baker at 16 yrs old. I bet she would love to try out this cookie.

  4. Sounds interesting, you are really replacing the butter with bacon grease and I always keep my bacon grease. I have made a few cookies lately. I made some oatmeal raisin and tried a recipe for the Chick-Fa-La copy cat recipe and it was pretty good. It was pretty close to the Chick-fa-la cookies.

      • This is the copy cat Chick fa la recipe that I tried.

        Prep Time: 10minutes minutesCook Time: 12minutes minutesTotal Time: 22minutes minutes Servings: 20 cookies Calories: 362kcal Author: Brandy Nelson

        Ingredients
        ?½ cup butter softened
        ?½ cup shortening
        ?1 ½ cups dark brown sugar packed
        ?½ cup granulated sugar
        ?2 large eggs
        ?1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
        ?2 ¾ cup all purpose flour
        ?1 teaspoon baking soda
        ?½ teaspoon baking powder
        ?½ teaspoon salt
        ?1 cup oats quick cooking or old fashioned
        ?12 ounce bag semisweet chocolate chunks (about 2 cups)
        ?½ cup milk chocolate chips
        Instructions
        Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
        Cream butter, shortening, dark brown sugar, and white sugar in a large mixing bowl using a hand mixer or stand mixer.
        Beat in eggs and vanilla.
        In a medium bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Stir. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and stir until combined.
        Stir in oats.
        Stir in chocolate chunks and chocolate chips.
        Using a medium cookie scoop (2 Tbsp.) scoop cookie dough and stack two cookie dough balls, one on top of the other, on cookie sheets lined with parchment paper. Bake 4-6 cookies per sheet to allow for room to spread.
        (See photo in blog post for a visual)
        Bake cookies for 11-13 minutes. Allow cookies to rest on the baking sheet for 3 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack.
        Notes
        Cookies are best served warm. Cookies can be reheated in the microwave for 5 seconds.

  7. Might be good but I can’t get past the “grease” part. lol I know butter and Crisco are also grease but they sound better. My favorite cookie is actually not baked. We call them boiled cookies. Made on stove top and include oatmeal, peanut butter and pecans.

    • Bridgette, I’m wondering if they’ll be good or not. But I shall make them and find out! Lol!

  10. Hi, I had never heard of bacon cookies, they sound good , but just the thought of the bacon grease in them doesnt sound too good to me, otherwise they sound very good. My husband bakes very good oatmeal, raisin , pecan cookies Have a great week. Thank you for sharing the recipe.

    • When I was growing up, both my grandmothers and my mom used bacon grease to cook with a lot. I don’t use it much because we don’t eat a lot of bacon but I think these will be different and good. All those cookies your husband makes sound wonderful!

  11. These do sounds interesting. I would be curious to try them with bacon grease to see what difference it makes in the batter. I would be tempted to put bacon pieces in the batter and try a batch with chocolate chips and bacon. I have lots of favorite cookies: Swiss Merengue Horns, World’s Best Cookies, Chocolate Chip, Gingerbread Cookies, Fruitcake Cookies, English Toffee Bars, Chocolate Cherry Cookies. I could probably come up with more if I thought about it.

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