bacon chocolate chip cookies! oh my!

This week's creation is bacon chocolate chip cookies. The best salty, sweet, soft, chewy, delicious treat around! I know adding bacon to anything is all the rage now, but it's true! Bacon really makes almost anything better! The first time I had even heard of these is when I started working at a bakery in Chicago. I was blown away that I hadn't seen these before, because they are sooooo good! 
This isn't the recipe from said bakery, but it's still incredible. You could really take any chocolate chip cookie recipes and just add chopped bacon to it. You can use as much or as little bacon as you like. 

This is a picture of my batter, so you can see the bacon and how like the chocolate chips you want enough to have some in every cookie but not so much that you overload your cookie. 






On another note, I unfortunately won't be able to post next week because I will be out of town on my days off and won't have time to make anything or write. 

Now onto the recipe!!

Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies
yield: 2 dozen (24 cookies)

soft unsalted butter  3/4 pound
sugar  1 cup
brown sugar  1 cup
eggs   3 each
vanilla extract  1 1/2 tsp
all purpose flour  3 1/4 cups
baking soda   1 1/2 tsp
salt   1 1/2 tsp
chocolate chips   3 cups
bacon, diced   6 slices

Preheat oven to 350 F. While oven is preheating bake bacon till done (or cook bacon however you like). While bacon is cooking, cream butter and sugars together till smooth. Then add eggs and vanilla, beat till smooth. Add flour, baking soda, and salt, mix till just combined. Then add chocolate chips and diced bacon, mix till just combined. Can scoop and bake immediately or can chill batter till use later. Or scoop and freeze cookie dough to be baked later (can pull and bake frozen). Bake for 7 minutes rotate then bake 7 minutes. Let cool and enjoy! Caution these are addicting!