🥓 What Makes This Recipe So Good
It’s no secret to my friends and family that I’m, um… kind of a fan of cookie butter. My team tags me in anything cookie-butter-related that comes up in their feeds. My husband dared eat the Crumbl cookie butter cookie I got a few weeks ago so we promptly went back the next day for a replacement. I don’t mess around when it comes to cookie butter. That’s why, when I tell you how unbelievably incredible these bacon cookie butter cookies are, you absolutely NEED to believe me. I’m a (self-proclaimed) cookie butter aficionado. These babies have just the right amount of cookie butter, giving you that caramely, buttery, gingery flavor without overwhelming the rest of the ingredients. Add to that brown sugar and cinnamon, plus the savory saltiness of the bits of bacon? They’re good, y’all. They’re really, really good. This recipe gives you a lot of bacon cookie butter cookies, which is fantastic if you’re having a party or baking for teacher gifts. If you aren’t planning to feed a multitude, though, the dough freezes really well. If stored properly, you can keep the dough frozen up to 3 months. Plus, you can bake the cookies right out of the freezer, no defrosting needed. Perfect for a sweet-and-salty pick-me-up when the craving strikes!
👩🏼‍🍳 Chef’s Tips
The bacon can make or break the cookies, so make sure you’ve got it just the way you like it! Whatever you do, don’t burn the bacon – that flavor will absolutely overpower everything else in the recipe. If chewy bacon’s not your thing, pick out those extra fatty pieces before mixing the bacon into the dough. Want to get perfectly round cookies with smooth edges? Just grab a round cookie cutter, a biscuit cutter, or even a drinking glass that’s just barely wider than the size of the cookies. As soon as you take the cookies out of the oven, put your tool of choice over/around the cookie, and very quickly swirl it around in small circles. The cookie should move around, hitting the side of the tool as it does, which gives it that perfectly smooth edge. You have to do it while the cookies are still warm, though – it won’t work once they’ve cooled off and their shape is set.
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