Peanut Butter and BACON cookies... dedicated to Jesse.
I may be going out there a little too far for some of you... hell, I'm out there pretty far for myself! However, I must explain. Derek and I recently celebrated our wedding anniversary at a wonderful spot here in Toronto called Trevor Kitchen and Bar. Our friend Jesse Vallins is the Chef de Cuisine and, despite all of our best efforts to be inconspicuous, He always discovers that we are there and treats us ridiculously well. We ended up getting multiple first courses and among our favourites was the heirloom tomato salad with bacon vinaigrette (BTW - Derek Never eats salad but he ate this one!) with a little breaded deep fried dill heaven and the BLT Consumme (Yes - you read that right) as for our other choices (Oh like the truffle and reggiano drizzled poutine! and my gorgeously rare lamb) we were also thrilled... Oh and the glass of sparkling Spanish helped the mood as well. Jesse really... you outdid yourself!
So inspired by the bacon craziness of late I decided to get on with making this recipe that I've been toying with for a while. I first saw the idea on Joy the Baker's website and did some tweaking of my own and came up with this little cookie. Part peanut butter cookie, part bacon breakfast and ALLLLL decadent! Delish! I may be out there but at least it tastes good to be here.
Peanut Butter Bacon Cookies.
(Adapted from Joy the Baker)
Makes a boat load!
3 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup unsalted butter at room temp.
1 1/2 cups peanut butter (I used all natural crunchy - another great use for my chopstick collection)
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 lg eggs
8 slices of bacon, cooked until crisp and broken into small, crunchy pieces
Preheat oven to 375 degress F. Prepare a cookie pan with a silicon baking sheet or parchment paper.
Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl and set aside.
In a separate bowl beat the butter and peanut butter until smooth and well combined. Add in the sugar and beat until fluffy - about 4 minutes or so. Add in the eggs and combine well.
Add the flour into the mixture and mix until well combined.
Sprinkle in the bacon pieces and mix well. Place tablespoons full on prepared baking sheet and press down with a fork. Bake for about 11 minutes.
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- Wanda Thorne
- St Michael's Choir School is celebrating it's 75th anniversary year of service to St Michael's Cathedral. Part of the school celebration is a trip to Italy where our boys from Grades 5 - 12 will be performing and celebrating Mass. This blog will be chronicling our adventures. Wanda Thorne is the Vocal Coach at St Michael's Choir School. Gerard Lewis is the Grade 7/8 Homeroom teacher at the Choir School.
About Me
- Wanda Thorne
- St Michael's Choir School is celebrating it's 75th anniversary year of service to St Michael's Cathedral. Part of the school celebration is a trip to Italy where our boys from Grades 5 - 12 will be performing and celebrating Mass. This blog will be chronicling our adventures. Wanda Thorne is the Vocal Coach at St Michael's Choir School. Gerard Lewis is the Grade 7/8 Homeroom teacher at the Choir School.
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