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:
Annie DeMoranville 