Bacon and Peanut Butter Cookies
The perfect combination of salty and sweet, these bacon and peanut butter cookies are an impressive food gift.
Makes: 48 cookies
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
Recipe Created By: Raina Bien on behalf of National Pork Board
Featured In: Tennessee Home & Farm
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
Recipe Created By: Raina Bien on behalf of National Pork Board
Featured In: Tennessee Home & Farm
Ingredients
- 1 pound bacon
- 2½ cups flour, unbleached
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons butter (1 stick), cubed and softened
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup peanut butter, smooth (not natural)
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1½ cups salted peanuts, finely ground in a food proccesor
- raw sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Arrange bacon on jelly roll pans and bake for about 20-30 minutes, flipping each piece halfway through cooking. When all fat has been rendered and bacon is crispy, drain strips on paper towels.
- Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees.
- Pour rendered grease into a metal bowl and chill it in the refrigerator until cool and solidified. Stir grease occasionally to speed cooling process.
- Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a mixing bowl and stir until well combined.
- Crumble bacon into small pieces, about ¼” square.
- Using an electric mixer, beat the butter until creamy. Mix in 8 tablespoons of cooled bacon fat. Add sugars and beat until creamy, about 3-4 minutes.
- Scrape down sides of bowl with a rubber spatula. Beat in peanut butter until thoroughly combined. Add the eggs, one at a time, then add vanilla. Scrape down sides then, on low speed, mix in dry ingredients. Stir in ground peanuts and bacon until mixed.
- Form the dough into golf ball-sized rounds and place them on sheet pan, spaced two inches apart. Dip a fork in water and press tines into the surface of each piece of dough twice to slightly flatten cookie. Sprinkle the cookies with a generous amount of raw sugar.
- Bake the cookies for about 10-12 minutes, rotating pans halfway through baking. The outer edges of cookies should only just begin to turn golden while the center will still look pale.
- Let cookies cool for 2-3 minutes on the sheet pan before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1 cookie|Calories: 180|Sodium: 325mg|Fat: 11g|Carbohydrates: 14.1g|Protein: 6.9g|