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Being a self proclaimed Baconoligist, I believe that bacon makes any food 1000x better but like any good scientist I need to proove it. So here we go, Proof #1,… Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies. (or as I’ve dubbed them, Chocolate Pig Cookies).. oh and this recipe is unofficially sponsered by Dunkin Doughnuts (mainly because I drink a lot of it) America runs on Dunkin!

Prep Time: 15-30 min
Cook Time: 11-12 min

Chao. Pig Cookie Ingredients

Ingredients:

- chocolate chip cookie dough (store bought or homemmade)
- maple cured bacon, 3-5 pieces

Instructions

First things first, the bacon. You want to get maple cured bacon, it’s sweeter and will add great flavor to the cookies. (But regular bacon will work as well). Dont get thick-cut, it remains too chewy and in the end, it seems like there is a wadded paper towel in the middle of your cookies. I find you need 2.5 – 3 strips of bacon per dozen cookies.

Cooking Bacon

You want to cook the bacon in a pan until crispy (when done cooking hang onto the greese), and then place on some paper towels to soak up all the grease.

Crispy Bacon

Crush up the bacon into pieces and set aside.

Bacon Bits

The cookie dough, I’m lazy so I bought some premade cookie dough. If you make your own, when it comes time to add the chocolate chips, also add you crumbled bacon, (and you can skip the next step).

Ready to make cookies

Take about a tabelspoon worth of cookie dough, and form into a ball in your hand. Then use your thumb to make a depression in the middle. Place a few bacon peices into the depression, and then fold the dough on top of it. Dont worry if you have extra bacon pieces left over, you can munch on them while the cookies bake.

Raw Choc Pig Cookie

Get a cookie sheet. For the ultimate experience, take some of the bacon grease and use that to grease the pan, otherwise just use some regular oil, or a cooking spray. Take your teablespoon cookie balls, and place n the pan.

Ready to bake

Set your oven to the tempreture your cookie dough recipe says (mine was 375*). Place the cookies in the oven and cook acording to the cookie dough directions, add an extra minute to the cooking time.My directions said, 9-11 minutes. I placed my cookies in for 12min, but cook until cookies start to turn goled brown.

Smells like bacon goodness

When done cooking allow the cookies to cool on a wire rack.

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Look at ‘em. Go ahead eat one, tell me it does not taste 1000x more awesome. The bacon adds a subtle salty sweetness to the cookie, and if you used mable cured then the maple flavor melds with the chocolate.

Now onto the power of this Baconology experiment. There are a number of variables at play here. The Cookie dough recipes, the type of bacon you use, cookie time, tempreture. But no matter the variables the equation holds steady.

B = F * 1000

F = Flavor rating of the food
B = Bacon