Choco Chip Bacon Cookies

[mlerules]

They're in my future! I am pleased. (vonvoncake rox my sox.)

EDIT: saladofdoom's suggested method is HEREIN!

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[inkandalchemy.livejournal.com]

Chocolate chip......... bacon?!

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

*nods head enthusiastically*

I don't really know what to expect, but'm excited at the prospect!

[inkandalchemy.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Well I'll leave that to you then: let us know what you think. Personally that sounds like a combination I'd safeword out of. LOL

[vonvoncake.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of intrigued myself. The question is, what would you dip them in? Milk doesn't seem quite right.

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

My mouth!

[saladofdoom.livejournal.com]

Ok, There's no recipe here, but I think I'd do it this way:
Blanch a pound or so of bacon at 300 degrees, so the liquid in the dripping doesn't boil away. (blanching is partially pre-cooking the bacon so it fries up faster. They do it in all restaurants where breakfast doesn't take an hour to get to your table..)
Strain the dripping add a teaspoon of carmel (or carmelize a teaspoon of sugar), stir and let it cool.
If the ratio of water to fat is about right (1:4 or so,) cool it until the water and fat are about the same consistency. Otherwise, or if the water part doesn't gell, heat it with some corn starch & cool it again.
chill, blend until it stays blended (if it won't, thicken the water part of the drippings more...)
That should leave you with a bacon-approximation of butter, which you could substitute for all or part of the butter in any cookie recipe. Butter is an emulsion of milk & fat, which makes the cookies rise when the fat melts in the oven and lets the water in the milk react with the baking powder. The carmel approximates the natural milk sugar that comes with butter.

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooooh...

[vismaya-viewer.livejournal.com]

With the pig worship that goes on in our household, I hope you post the recipe. *batting eye*

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

Check out saladofdoom's comment to this post of mine for an amazing idea!

[dillenger69.livejournal.com]

For your enjoyment ...
bacon chocolate chip cookies and candied bacon

I was thinking about trying to whip some of these up to bring on Friday. But I'm pretty sure the wonderful world of homework is going to keep me from doing that.

[saladofdoom.livejournal.com]

Stealthcello had me do the bacon that way, but the brown sugar didn't always melt, and a couple of times it just sat on top and burned, so I use the carmel sauce I make in the microwave now instead. That wy, you can put it on near the end, and turn it a few times while you're cooking it. I keep meaning to post the carmel sauce, but it needs pictures and lots of explanation... I'll get to around to it eventually.