Now that we’ve said ewww, let’s look at these bacon cookies, which taste like a portable breakfast crossed with a sugar cookie. And why wouldn’t they, with corn flakes and raisins mixed into what it is essentially an old-fashioned basic sugar cookie dough? With the bacon, we have a combination of sweet, salty and savory, three of the five tastes the human tongue detects. (The others are bitter and sour.)
I know from making Salted Oatmeal Cookies, with sea salt sprinkled on top, that a cookie recipe can seem weird but taste good, and it was that recipe that prompted someone to send me this one. These are good too, honest, but probably best as a novelty or — this is promising – made thin and with less sugar to serve with adult beverages.
With almost equal weights of butter and flour, I knew they’d spread in the oven, so I chilled the dough first to minimize that. And even though the original called for half a pound of bacon, I took one look at that much bacon and I couldn’t do it. Just couldn’t. Six slices seemed fine, but if you want to, um, go whole hog then do use the half pound.
Breakfast Bacon Cookies
6 slices bacon, cooked and snipped into small bits, reserved
1 stick/ 113g unsalted butter
3/4 cup/ 150g sugar
1 large egg
1 cup/ 124g all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups/ 56g corn flakes
1/2 cup/ 80g raisins
Set a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350F/180C/Gas 4.
In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar until light. Add the egg and mix well. Combine the flour and baking soda, add to the butter/sugar/egg mixture and beat to combine. Stir in the bacon, cornflakes and raisins.
[Optional but highly recommended: chill the dough for 30 to 60 minutes now or after the cookies are formed. ~ ella]
Roll dough into balls about 1″ in size and place about 2″ apart on an ungreased cookie sheet or a sheet lined with parchment. Bake one sheet at a time for 14 – 17 minutes, let stand on the cookie sheet for two minutes then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Store airtight for 2 days.
Yield: 24 – 30 cookies
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A bit off topic, but the latest craze is chocolate covered bacon, which has made it’s way into the mainstream–by that I mean the Whole Foods chocolate section, at about 8 bucks a bar in my area.
There was an front page article in the NYT online edition on chocolate covered bacon a couple of months ago, and its slow progression from a few elite chefs to the gourmand cooks to the mainstream. And then I stumble on the bar of chocolate loaded with bacon in WPC.
The cookies seems a related to the phenom, no?
–Fern
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Hi, word. Yeah, bacon’s been hot for a good, long while. This recipe was sent to me almost a year ago and I always had other things to bake till cooking/baking with what’s on hand. As a concept, this isn’t much different from the chocolate-covered Chex Mix … or that stuff at Whole Paycheck, which I’ve never thought of as mainstream, but that really doesn’t matter.
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I made something like this as a teen…back before anyone was concerned with cholesterol! They were a “grab and go” breakfast.
Now, I’m more inclined to grab a low-fat homemade muffin
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I hear ya, Kathy, loud and clear!
I must say, the best thing that resulted from trying the Big Breakfast Diet last year is that I got back in the habit of breakfast in general and cereal in particular. With caffeine, natch. Lots of it!
Semi Savoury cookies, I like this idea and I don’t feel like sweet ones always! I will have to come back for the recipe and try it one day ! Thanks.
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Hi, Janet. I don’t always have a sweet tooth either. The properties of the bacon really do add a dimension that’s hard to describe but easy to eat.
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While I do tire of the current bacon craze, I secretly adore bacon. Thank you for the recipe, cheers!
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You’re welcome. Good to see you! (Bacon is so delicious….)
You know, I remember you mentioning this on at my blog, but it took a while to sink in. “Did she really say ‘bacon cookies’?”
Keeping this in mind.
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HA! Yep, that’s what she said. If you ever need a conversation starter, I can assure you bacon cookies do the trick.