Brown Sugar Bacon Cookies

Total Time: 23 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 18 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon table salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened (2 sticks)
• 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup finely chopped cooked bacon, well-drained (or more)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325°f.
• 2 sift dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
• 3 in the work bowl of a stand mixer (or in a large bowl with a hand-held electric mixer), cream butter and both sugars until fluffy and mostly smooth. add eggs, one at a time, mixing until fully incorporated.
• 4 turn the mixer down to low and add dry ingredients, a little at a time, until incorporated.
• 5 stir in chopped bacon by hand with a spoon.
• 6 place spoonfuls of dough (1 to 1 1/2 tbsp each) on parchment- or silpat-lined cookie sheet. press down with back of fork. bake in preheated oven 14-18 minutes, rotating back-to-front after 7 minutes. (for best results, bake only one sheet at a time, in the middle of the oven.).
• 7 when cookies are golden brown, remove from oven and transfer to a rack to cool.