Peanut Butter Bacon Cookies Recipe

This might sound completely crazy or it might go along with the rest of the baking world's recent addiction to bacon, but these peanut butter bacon cookies are super yummy. My brother in law wanted a "bacon themed" graduation party and I helped deliver with the addition of these cookies to the menu. They seemed to be a hit. The most important part of the bacon is that it is crisply cooked--this adds another depth of interest as you eat. 

And if you're afraid to go all in and make an entire batch of cookies with BACON in them, try adding bacon to half a batch (or just one pan of cookies) and see what you think. I bet you'll like them!

Peanut Butter Bacon Cookies Recipe

recipe adapted from Jif

makes 3-1/2 dozen cookies

Ingredients

3/4 cup Jif Creamy Peanut Butter 

1/2 cup shortening

1-1/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar

3 Tbsp milk

1 Tbsp vanilla extract

1 large egg

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour

3/4 tsp. baking soda

3/4 tsp. salt

6-8 bacon strips, crisply cooked and crumbled

Directions

 Heat oven to 350 degrees.  

In a large bowl, cream together peanut butter, shortening, brown sugar, milk, and vanilla.  Add in the egg and beat to combine. 

In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt.  Add in 3 increments to the creamed mixture, stirring after each addition. Mix just until blended.  Fold in crispy bacon crumbles. Scoop into tablespoon size balls of dough and place 2 inches apart onto a baking sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until set and just beginning to brown.  Cool completely on cooling racks.  

Baked Bacon

I love bacon. Who doesn't?! But I hate cooking bacon--the splatter of grease, the occasional burns, the excess grease on the surface of the cooked bacon, the bacon that curls up into inappropriate shapes for sandwiches, my inability to cook bacon to the perfect crispness (I either burn it or under cook it. ick.) 

This is the simplest recipe ever. For real.

Baked Bacon

recipe based on a Rachael Ray episode

Ingredients

1/2 pound bacon

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil (be sure to line the foil up the edges to contain all of the grease.) Place a wire cooling rack inside the baking sheet to form a rack for the bacon. Arrange bacon strips on the rack. Bake for 15-20 minutes until bacon is crisp. 

Remove bacon from the pan and enjoy! 

Once grease is cooled, wrap up tin foil to contain the grease and throw away.