I am an avid watcher of B. Dylan Hollis’s cooking videos. If you haven’t seen one, you are missing out, and there is no way I could explain the joy they bring. I’ve added the video of this recipe at the bottom of this post.
A few days ago, one of his old ones popped up in my feed, and I knew I had to make the recipe. I made a few changes, mostly adding bacon pieces because I thought the recipe was crying out for them.
The other change I made, was to default to my traditional Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies measurement. One pound of bacon renders one-half cup bacon grease and that is the amount of butter for a half-batch of my cookies. I felt Dylan’s recipe (he is always faithful to whatever old recipe he finds) was too much flour for the amount of fat.
Here’s what I did:
Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 1/2 cup bacon grease*
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- dash of salt
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1 cup chocolate chips of your choice (I use dark chocolate)
- 1/2 cup very crispy bacon bits
mixing bowl, baking sheet
Combine grease, sugar, and egg. Beat by hand until fluffy. Add vanilla, baking soda and salt. Mix well. Add flour and stir until well combined. Then fold in chocolate chips, and finally bacon bits. Mix until combined. Don’t overmix or the bacon bits will break up too much.
Chill dough for at least 15 minutes
Using cookie scoop or tablespoon to add dough to baking sheet.
Bake at 350 for about 12 minutes**
Yields about 2 doz cookies
*One pound of bacon, cooked to very crisp, will render 1/2 cup bacon grease and more than enough bacon bits for the recipe.
**I air fryed them for added yumminess.
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