How to Cook Tasty Bacon-Maple Sugar Cookies

Bacon-Maple Sugar Cookies. Line baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside. Tiny bits of maple-caramelized bacon are then folded in, providing a salty counter to the sweet dough. These cookies are like a warm blanket wrapped around you on a cool autumn evening. With the scraps of dough and the leftover glaze, I used my mini maple leaf cutter and made mini sandwich cookies - cut thin with the icing in between. The big ones I blinged up with edible gold paint, gold sanding sugar, and big gold confetti.

In these maple cookies, the salty component comes in the form of BACON! This cookie recipe is for the true bacon lovers out there. The smokiness of the bacon, combined with the brown sugar and the chocolate chips and the maple flavor. . . . You can cook Bacon-Maple Sugar Cookies using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bacon-Maple Sugar Cookies

1. You need 1 cup of Fine Sugar.
2. It's 1 1/2 each of Egg and 1 Yolk.
3. It's 1 1/2 cup of AP Flour.
4. You need 1/2 cup of Self-Rising Flour.
5. It's 1 each of chocolate frosting & vanilla frosting.
6. You need 2 tbsp of Bacon Drippings.
7. You need 1 tsp of Honey.
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Vanilla Extract.

It just doesn't get any better when the sweet and salty cravings hit! Maple Cookies In a large bowl, beat together the butter, brown sugar, maple syrup, baking soda, salt, and maple extract until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time. Mix in flour until well blended.

Bacon-Maple Sugar Cookies instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350º.
2. Combine sugar and eggs until smooth. Mix in bacon drippings, honey and vanilla.
3. Sift flour and incorporate into wet mix making sure no lumps form.
4. Knead dough for 10 seconds and chill for 20 min.
5. Form cookies and bake for 15-20 min until golden.
6. For Maple Frosting: Add 2 tbs good quality maple syrup to your chocolate frosting.
7. Decorate and enjoy :).

Using a one inch cookie scoop, scoop batter on prepared baking sheets. Sprinkle tops lightly with sea salt and brown sugar. The secret to my perfectly decadent maple bacon shortbread cookies is the leftover bacon grease in the cookie dough. After you crisp the bacon, the remaining bacon fat is whisked into the butter, flour, and sugar for a cookie dough that will have you licking the mixing bowl clean. But glaze a soft sugar cookie with maple and crumble on some bacon and maple bacon cookies are born.