Bacon Chocolate-Chip cookies

It started with a power outage in the Summer of 2007 in San Francisco’s Financial District. Some coworkers and I tool a stroll looking around the city and ended up at Fog City News. Now fog city news is a great little store for exotic chocolate (and magazines, newspapers, etc.) This is where I fell in love with bacon chocolate.

A few months later as I was looking for a way to “mix-up” some chocolate chip cookies and on a whim added some bacon. Brilliance! The recipe I use is:

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter (works better if you let them soften first)
For an alternative approach use bacon fat for all or part of the butter required in the recipe.
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon molasses
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 to 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips (I prefer a dark chocolate)
1 lb cooked & chopped bacon (I tend to avoid maple flavored)

Preheat oven to 375F

Mix butter, eggs, vanilla, sugar and molasses in a bowl till smooth and creamy.
Add the salt, baking soda, and slowly the flour until the dough firms up.
Add chocolate chips and mix
Add bacon and mix

(here is the part that is hard for me to get past)

using a teaspoon (or larger depending on desired cookie size) drop dough onto a cookie sheet

bake 9-11 minutes

Eat as soon as possible