Monday, 21 September 2009

• Bacon in a Cookie? Oh, It's Been Done...

  This is a guest blog from CakeSpy.
  

  
  
  

  You love breakfast. You love cookies. So why have they been kept separate for so long?
  
  They join forces in one whopper of a cookie for my latest feature on Serious Eats: the Bacon, Cereal, and Orange Juice Breakfast Cookie! Each of these monster cookies contains a trifecta of deliciousness, balancing sweet and savory with plenty of butter on top.
  
  Worth waking up for in the morning, or have I made you want to vomit into your coffee? Either way, it's an interesting recipe, based on one that I found in a 1980s cookie cookbook! Here's the full recipe:
  

  Ingredients:

  1/2 cup butter, room temperature
  1/2 cup brown sugar
  1 egg
  2 tablespoons thawed frozen orange juice concentrate
  1 tablespoon grated orange peel
  1 1/4 cups flour
  1 teaspoon baking powder
  6 strips bacon or veggie bacon, cooked very crisp, drained and crumbled (I used veggie bacon and it worked just fine)
  1/2 cup Grape-Nuts

  Procedure:

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.

  2. In a medium bowl, beat together butter, sugar, egg, orange juice concentrate and peel, until light and fluffy. Add flour and baking powder, beating until well blended.

  3. Stir in bacon and cereal, stirring only until incorporated.

  4. Using an ice cream scoop (I used a big one), drop 3 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.

  5. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until edges are golden. Remove cookies from sheets while still warm and cool on racks.

  
  
  Check out the full entry here.

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