Take your chocolate chip cookies to the next level with these Maple Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies! #BaconMonth2015
Maple Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies
Are you as excited about Bacon Month as I am?! I know my bloggy friends and I are going to kill it this year with all of the great bacon recipes coming your way!! I’m kicking off Bacon Month with these Maple Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies – I’m taking the classic cookie and hooking it up with some bacon and maple for a delicious new twist!
Brian is a huge chocolate chip cookie fan. Not only does he love the cookies, but he loves the raw dough. Blech!! I’m too much of a germ-a-phobe so I can’t do the raw cookie dough unless there are no eggs. Yes, I am that person. 😉
I know some people are off-put by the idea of adding bacon to sweet recipes, but sometimes, it just works. This recipe is one of those times it worked! My bacon-loving boys loved these cookies with a glass of ice cold milk.
Remember, this is just the first of many bacon recipes this month! Be sure to stay tuned all month, my bloggy friends and I will be sharing tons of great bacon recipes!! I have a few recipes that I just can’t wait to share, I am so excited – and I hope y’all are just as excited for this series!
Maple Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Maple Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter, softened 1 stick
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg white save yolk for another use or discard
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 box instant vanilla pudding mix, dry 3.4 oz
- 1 teaspoon maple extract
- 1 ½ cups chocolate chips
- ½ cup chopped cooked bacon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper or Silpat. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat butter, brown sugar, and baking soda with an electric mixer until combined. Beat in egg and egg white. Add the flour, dry pudding mix, and maple extract.
- Using a wooden spoon or spatula, stir in the chocolate chips and bacon.
- Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls 2-inches apart on prepared pans. Bake 10-12 minutes or until set. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 2-3 minutes before transferring them to wire racks to cool completely.
Notes
- No maple extract? Feel free to use vanilla – it will taste different but I understand not always wanting one-time-use ingredients in the pantry!
Nutrition
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These cookies are calling my name !
I love a little bacon with my chocolate!! Loving this little cookie with big flavor!!
These cookies are amazing!
I am totally in love with these!
Bacon month sounds like one delicious month! And these cookies look outrageously good! 🙂
Bacon month! Ummm amazing. And these cookies. bravo!
Giiirrrl, I love bacon and I bet these were awesome!
Just made them they are so good
Lacking in bacon flavor, otherwise a very good chocolate chip cookie
I tried to “adjust” this recipe using a 1/2 tsp more extract, 1/2 c fewer chocolate chips, and 1/2 c more bacon. DISASTER! What worked much better: a generous tsp of maple, scant 1 1/2 c of chocolate chips, and packed to overflowing bacon ripped into slightly bigger pieces. That worked out perfectly! So yummy and every time I post pics of my latest batch, somebody new wants the recipe!