Peanut Butter Bacon Cookies
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 diced
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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Joy, Joy, Joy. I think you may just be the love of my life. These flourless pb cookies are my favourite cookie. And bacon? Bacon is just my favourite… thing on earth. And you? You are my favourite food blogger. The result? One happy girl, over here.
Oh my goodness! I am so glad you made these! Im excited to try them!
I thought a three day weekend couldn’t get any better, until now.
This is pure genius! I must make these.
Coincidentally I just made these peanut butter cookies a few hours ago because they are my favorite pb cookies – I originally found the recipe here on your blog – but I would never have thought of adding bacon to them! I can’t even imagine how they would taste!
I’ll absolutely make these with our home smoked bacon! How much better could it get?
Wholly crow – I think I may have passed out for a second. Did you say PB & Bacon? My husband is currently wiping drool off his chin and checking to make sure we have the ingredients – I guess I’ll be trying these this weekend.
Everything taste better with bacon!
Wow, I was about to go make these NOW and then I saw that my bacon disappeared. What the heck? Oh, yeah, I live with a boy (my brother). Bacon doesn’t last around here.
Thank you!! Thank you for posting this recipe. I will definitely be making these this week. I love sweet/savory combos and my husband just straight up loves bacon. For Valentine’s I made him Bacon Ice Cream. That’s the kind of wife I am. Oh, he will be so pleased. :)
oh my oh my oh my! Bacon and Peanut butter YES!
I read that title, and then thought “hang on.. did that just say BACON?”. Sure ’nuff, I wasn’t crazy. These sound awesome!
seriously…bacon and peanut butter are two of my absolute favs. gotta get on this one quickly! perhaps I will add it to my repertoire.
Love it! Chad has been eating only recipes that *I’m* excited about, maybe I will make this one for him! I never like bacon in sweets until I had this ridiculous honey smoked bacon at my favorite lunch place — now I want it in everything!
interesting…
i’m not sure that anyone in the family will go for that one, but if you happened to give me a couple, *i* might go for it! it’s no fun to bake something and it be a flop with the family. really, i’m speaking from experince, and it’s sooo totally not.
sending some peanut butter and bacon cookie love your way, joy!
sarah-anne catherine
I love the make up conversations! :) :) Hmmmm I’d vote a yes on the daily 3:30 brownie event!
My dad got me hooked on peanut butter and bacon sandwiches when I was a little girl. I used to cringe watching him eat such a thing…after one bite though I knew Id fell in love. In a cookie though, Ive not had. THESE cookies I cannot wait to make!!!!!!!! I need to make them to send to my Dad in a care package for sure. Thank you SO much for the recipe and creativity, Joy :)
oh wow this is definitely different from cookies that I’m used to. Looks quite interesting
Oh my, those are so inviting !
These really do sound good, and with a husband who loves bacon as much as mine does, I will probably be trying these very soon. Thanks for the recipe! It’s an interesting combination that sounds awesome.
This post had me rolling. I have to admit I’m a little sceptical about the combo but I’d be willing to try… I think! Thanks for this, I’ll have to let you know if I try it!
ps. I’d vote for a International-Go-Ahead-And-Eat-A-Brownie Moment!
You take baking to whole new realms, and I love you for it!
I am officially beyond excited at the prospect of this recipe! And is it wrong that I totally want to use it to impress a certain fella!?
Come on, what man doesn’t love his bacon and therefore what man (or one particular fella) wouldn’t love cookies with bacon baked right in! Fabulous!! And gluten free which makes it so much better because it means I can enjoy it with that certain fella!
well–there is an official “Happy Hour” for drinks so why can’t we decide on a daily “Cookie Hour” if we so choose? I say 2:00-3:00 p.m. each afternoon (starting Monday w/Bacon PB cookies)! We need/deserve TGICH in our day!
This is recipe is sooo wrong, cuz I am sooo vegetarian, and yet in my heart burns an intense and undeniable desire to make these cookies. Noooooooooooooooooooooo! :(
my son asked me the other day if I could out bacon in a cookie and I was like..eew, no. you have shown me the error of my ways. sounds weird and delicious all at the same time!
I have been wanting to try adding bacon to cookies like this. It sounds so interesting!
When I saw the title of your post, the first thing that popped in my head was “Oh No She Didn’t!” because I am absolutely SMITTEN with the brown sugar bacon waffles. That recipe absolutely made me love all things bacon! Especially bacon married with other sweet ingredients! In fact, I made the waffles yesterday for breakfast. And we are moving in with my mother in law next weekend (while we build a house) and I purposely left my waffle iron out so that I can make that recipe! And now a COOKIE recipe?? Man you’re killing me! :) Thanks! Can’t wait to try them! Like today.
i think u just made the world’s best cookie even better!!! but there’s no surprise there :)
These sounds so amazing, I think they call for their own holiday! National Peanut Butter Cookie Day! Yum…
I’ve never really been into this bacon fad…I don’t particularly like bacon…But I’ve been thinking about these cookies ever since you posted them! I’m so intrigued I may have to make them!
These look amazing – I loved the other flourless peanut butter cookies you posted a while back. One of my favorite restaurants back home does a peanut butter bacon burger that is absolutely to die for.
Peanut butter with meat really isn’t so crazy – Thai and Filipino people both do it!
what an interesting recipe! lovely photography!
I once made my chocolate chip cookies with bacon and had a hard time tasting the two ingredients together, if that makes sense. I could taste the bacon, and the chocolate chip cookie, but they were very separate tastes. Anyway, these look way too good to pass up.
I just made these this morning! The combination of bacone and peanut butter is delicious! Next time I’d like to try it with a cookie recipe that has flour :)
This is definatley not the last time i will make these!
I too grew up on peanut butter and bacon sandwhiches…they are my favorite to this day. So…guess what I just made? These cookies are divine. Thanks Joy!
I haven’t been able to get into the whole bacon in desserts thing yet, but my husband just walked in, saw the title of your post and is all about me making these now! Guess its time or me to take the plunge, huh?
omg. I think I love you. And I think my boyfriend will love you even more than I do when I make these for him. Peanut butter and bacon are his two favorite things. I can’t wait!
my birthday is on international beer day! :)
Thank you so much for this recipe! My friend and I tried it out and it was fabulous!! :D
I am so excited to try this. My husband has “boys night” this Wednesday. It’s the perfect treat to send with him. He is so excited. BTW….love the whole wheat chocolate chip cookies……they are fantastic!
Joy, you are my new best friend…actually my second best friend because these cookies are now my first. I have eaten PBandBacon sandwiches for years and I, as a baker, can’t believe I’ve never thought of a PBBacon cookie. I am so glad someone like you came along to enlighten us all. Thank you!!!
My mother used to make a peanut butter, pumpernickel and bacon appetizer in the 70s. It was amazing and so simple. Yes, bacon and peanut butter are fabulous together.
pizza and beer day? yeah…that sounds almost as good as these cookies! looking forward to making them for my bacon-loving boyfriend (and what boy doesn’t love bacon, really? actually, make that ‘what human doesn’t love bacon, really?’)
I think this is the first time my vegetarianism restricts me from one of your recipes. That’s ok. I forgive you, Joy.
-Action Jackson
How to veganise… how to veganise… It’s not the bacon that’s the issue either, it’s the egg! There’s only so much a block of tofu can do…
Will certainly add vegebacon to my next batch of gluteny margy cookies though.
And I’m currently designing posters for International 3:30 brownie moment for our staffroom (working in a school means it’s the perfect time for sugar rushes to take hold!)
Cheers Joy!
My first batch just came out of the oven. I’m letting them cool completely on the cookie sheet before moving. They smell divine(and the raw batter was pretty darned good). Thanks Joy!
I’ve eaten peanut butter and bacon on toast forever. I can’t wait to try these. I’m thinking my maple smoked bacon might be perfect in them.
My husband will love me even more for these as they are his 2 favorite things together! Peanut Butter & Bacon! Genius! Thanks for sharing!
I just made this tonight, and OMG! These cookies are delicious– crispy, rich with flavor, but not too rich. Mine came out a bit thinner than Joy’s, maybe because I made the dough balls too big, and I did roll them in sugar before the criss-cross markings. Also, I’d warn you all that the dough is pretty sticky to handle, so prepare for messy fingers! However, none of this changes my opinion about these cookies at all– SO GOOD!
http://desertculinary.blogspot.com/2005/05/crispy-chocolate-chip-bacon-cookies.html
HA! Bacon is EVERYWHERE these days!! I just ran across the above blog yesterday and was salivating over the thought of using bacon in cookies! YUM!! Now I have TWO recipes to try!!!
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