Sometimes I have imaginary phone conversations. Ok… this happens a lot. They go a little something like this:
Hello..? Yes, hi. I’d like to speak with the person in charge of making up all these clever food holidays like today’s Bacon Day. Oh, that’s you? Excellent. I have a few additional food holidays I thought you might like to add to your calender.
How about a pizza and beer holiday every Friday of the month. I mean… it’d just be really great if my calender could justify my food choices. No? You know, you don’t have to decide so quickly. Maybe think it over a bit. Still no? Ok… lemme run another idea by you.
Can we make everyday at 3:30 in the afternoon National-Go-Ahead-And-Eat-A-Brownie Moment? What? That’s too specific? I see. You might reconsider this one… the people are really calling for it.
No?
Ok…. I’ll just stick to Bacon Day. Thanks for that one.
I gotta run. I have to tell all my friends about these Peanut Butter Bacon Cookies I just made! Laaaater!
Interested in other ways to celebrate bacon!?
How about Brown Sugar Bacon Waffles or BLT’s with Homemade Mayonnaise!?
Bacon and peanut butter!? Peanut Butter and Bacon! Yes. Yes yes yes!
I had never heard of this combination until a friend told me how her grandfather used to make peanut butter and bacon sandwiches for all the grandkids to eat. What? I need ts combination in cookie form and I need them in my face right now…. that’s what I thought as she was waxing on about her grandfather. Sorry.
So how do these cookies taste? So amazingly good! The cookie itself is a more delicate, crumbly peanut butter cookie due to the absence of butter and flour. Yup! Gluten free! The peanut butter taste is front and center. The bacon blends incredibly well with the sweetness of the cookie, adding an alluring salty, smoky, chewy bite. Hot dang! I will make these cookies again and again and again. Flourless. Butterless. Only five ingredients and one of those ingredients is bacon. The world just got a step closer to perfect.
Peanut Butter Bacon Cookies
adapted from The Gourmet Cookbook
makes 15 cookies about the size of your palm
1 cup all-natural chunky or smooth peanut butter
1 cup sugar (1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup granulated sugar)
1 egg
1 teaspoon baking soda
about 6 slices of bacon, cooked, cooled and dices
In a skillet over medium high heat, fry up bacon until cooked through and let cool on paper towels until cool enough to dice. Dice up and set aside.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease a baking sheet with butter and set aside. In a mixer combine peanut butter and sugars until well combined, about 2 minutes. Add egg and baking soda and mix for another 2 minutes. Fold in cooked bacon. Roll into large walnut sized balls and create a cris-cross pattern with a fork. If you’d like, roll the dough balls in granulated sugar before making the cris-cross pattern. Bake for 10 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool on a baking sheet for five minutes, then transfer to… your mouth.
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Brilliant recipe.
I loved the post on impressing boys with baking; that is definitely something I do. When I read about these bad boys I thought they were definitely worth a shot and I was right.
Your blog is brilliant, so very funny, thank you
I cannot even WAIT to make these tonight! Amazing!
Thank you for this exciting and delicious recipe.
My boyfriend and I are in marketing terms part of the creative class. I’m a creative artist in many mediums and he is the music business. So far your recipe as been served to the band Fear Factory. They loved it. There’s actually a few dozen bacon PB cookies on the tour bus right now:)
FYI. I’m going to serve this many of our friends and touring rock stars. MMmm maybe.. Metallica by the end of the year??;)
I just made these cookies. WOW is all I have to say. I love peanut butter and bacon, but have never imagined putting them together. My husband, however, takes loving bacon and peanut butter to a whole new level in which he is the master. I can not wait for him to taste these when he gets home tonight!!!
I love peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. What a great idea to pair them together in cookies!
This is one good recipe. I no more than made one batch then I had to make another one. Will definitely make again and again. Thanks
Hot damn! I think I ate half the dough before the cookies even got formed, but shhhh don’t tell ;) I am telling you, these things are sin in baked-goods form. Thank you SO MUCH for this little bit of taste bud glee!
Joy do you think I could freeze these after making? My husband wants these for his poker night when I’m out of town next weekend so I was hoping to make tonight and freeze but don’t want to screw up the amazingness :)
Thanks Miss Joy, these are now my signature cookies! They were a natural choice to bring to a pig roast this summer. I always add some vanilla and omit greasing the sheet. The fat from the pb definitely makes up for it. I also learned as great as chocolate is, the chips overpower these lil guys!
These were AMAZING! I love sweet and salty as a pairing, and this idea exemplifies that combination. Thank you, thank you, for such a wonderful recipe.
Am I the only one who feels like these cookies would definitely get you a husband? Ha bacon and baking, that sounds like something the perfect woman would do.
Yum, thanks! I knew I saw this a long time ago and never bookmarked it. Good thing for Google!
Hey Joy the Baker!
Each year, at the school in which I teach, we have a little contest called THE TASTE-OFF. Each year we pick a “key ingredient”, and this year, it was BACON! I was searching for recipes online, and came across your Peanut Butter Bacon cookie recipe. I HAD to make it…peanut butter AND bacon??!!! Two of my FAVORITE food groups!
Giving you, and “The Gourmet Cook” full credit, I altered the recipe a bit by adding chunks of semi-sweet chocolate to the recipe.
Just wanted to let you know that THEY WON!!!! AWESOME recipe! Thanks for posting it!
Eww these probably taste disgusting.
wrong.
They are soooo wrong on so many levels…. which makes them just right! Mmmmmm Bacon with PB in a bite size ball of bliss……..
@ Jen: And you probably have no tastebuds.
@ Joy The Baker: This recipe sounds awesome. My wife is throwing a bridal shower & her friend is a fan of Sweet & Savory – She’ll love these (And I know I will also). Thanks for the great recipe – will update after she bakes them. :D
Sounds delish.. as a child I loved a toasted PB, bacon and potato chip sandwich- PB melts on the hot toast and then add the bacon strips and chips and crush down… don’t get a visual on getting sick until you try it – still have them to this day into retirement!
Wowowowowowow! I just made these last night… I also threw in some chocolate chips and holy moly they are good! Thanks for a great recipe…and super easy!
made & loved but… mine dough wouldn’t hold together very well & post baking was incredibly difficult to keep them in one piece…. think it was the PB (it had flax)?
I think I might add more bacon next time too! :)
These were AMAZING! Hubby and I had a hankering for something new involving peanut butter and bacon, happened across your blog and promptly raided the cabinets to make them. Delicious does not even begin to do justice to these!
Thank you for sharing :) We’re going to try the bacon waffles next!
Let me start off by saying that your blog is my absolute favorite!! Now…on to the topic at hand. I hate peanut butter cookies…well I did until I baked these cookies!! These things are amazing!!! I’ve made 2 batches in the past week and a half. Thank you so much for an awesome recipe Joy!!!
Thank you so much, The recipe and picture looks mouth-watering! I’m going to take you up on the rice pudding and make some this week! Thanks, again and take good care…
Thank you so much for this recipe!! I’ve made it many times while being pregnant and for my group of mommy friends. It’s odd walking into a group and declaring that your cookies are not vegetarian, but they are so good!!
Yes! Bacon and peanut butter sandwiches played a massive role in my childhood. Now the cookie version shall play a massive role in my adult life.
At last! Someone who understands! Thanks for ponsitg!
This recipe sounds just odd enough to be awesome. I did think about an adaptation — I’ve made Maple-Bacon to sprinkle on salads (Basically bacon drizzled with maple syrup and baked in the oven until crispy). Might make extra next time and try it in these…..Can’t wait!
I don’t think enough bacon made it into my dough. *shifty look* No idea why that would be…
In all seriousness, though, I think they could have used another piece or maybe even two or bacon. But they were delicious peanut butter cookies anyway, and every once in a while it’s like BAM! AWESOME BACON!
Thanks for the recipe!
I stumbled upon your blog looking for a bacon dessert for a bacon-themed potluck at work tomorrow. Just baked them up, made an extra for a ‘tester’, and I’m contemplating ‘forgetting’ about the potluck to eat them all myself.
Thanks for the recipe!
I’ve made this recipe for years, only minus the bacon; however I don’t use any baking soda. When you do it that way it’s a three ingredient recipe (unless you’re adding bacon). I must say that I’m not too sure about the bacon/peanut butter combination, but I’m certainly game to give it a try!
I just made these cookies and used maple bacon. They are delish but a little sweet, I would cut down the sugar a little next time
Hi Joy,
I’m planning to make these awesome cookies for my birthday… and I realised that I bought the wrong thing! I got baking powder instead of baking soda :( would it be alright to use baking powder instead of baking soda? please let me know asap…
thank you! your help would be very very appreciated!!!
o.m.g. after my week of listening to you and tracey on podcasts I decided on friday to make tracey’s black bean & sweet potato soup and a batch of these bad boys. We ate the soup friday and saturday nights and all weekend if I’m not eating the cookies I’m telling other people about them/thinking about the next one I will eat. I’m also re-listening to your hippy podcast for cashew butter/coconut oil/baking soda plans. help, I’ve become one of those crazy stalker types.
I took these on as a snow day baking challenge (we just got about a foot of snow), and holy cow! Amazing! Thanks for the recipe!
I am doing a cookie exchange next week and I wanted to do a cookie with a WOW-factor. I’d heard of peanut butter bacon cookies from my brother, who is a big bacon boy! Your recipe was the first to come up and it looked pretty easy, so I thought I’d try it.
It seemed odd to me that there was no flour in the recipe. I don’t know what adding a bit of flour would do to the consistency of the cookie. Anyway, I made them and they were okay. Definately peanut buttery, but the bacon taste was not as strong as I would have liked. Maybe I could have added more bacon as others have suggested. They were also a bit more crumbly than I would have preferred, not sure why that is.
I don’t think I’ll be doing these for the cookie exchange, mainly because they are not very cost effective as the recipe made just under 2 dozen cookies and I have to make between 5 & 6 doz. But, I will keep the recipe for future gatherings with a smaller crowd. Thanks for the recipe Joy!
I owe a friend something baked, and since he went above and beyond, I baked these up (they’ve been out of the over for about 5 minutes now). I found these a few weeks ago and bookmarked them for just an occasion. Ok, I gotta say, I don’t eat bacon (blasphemy, I know). I just don’t. BUT, I baked these up and ooooooooh ma goodness, I think I could easily eat the whole batch. I used 7 pieces of bacon, and then before pressing them, I dipped the top in a 3t cinnamon+ 3T sugar mix… I already ate 2, gave one to my neighbor (who doesn’t like pb, but loves bacon) and she was speechless. I love that the bacon kinda just melts into the cookie. Thanks for all your recipes!!
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