Here are 2 delicious cookie recipes to get you through a hard day, the first is my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, the second is a bit more adventurous Oatmeal Maple Bacon Bourbon cookies which I make for my family every Thanksgiving.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

200 g flour
2 g baking soda
4 g salt
200 g chocolate chips

1 stick butter
150 g white sugar
75 g brown sugar
1 egg
6 g vanilla

  1. Preheat oven to 350 f

  2. Cream butter, sugars, egg and vanilla together

  3. Silt in dry ingredients minus chocolate chips

  4. Stir in chocolate chips

  5. Shape into small balls on a baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes

  6. Rotate trays and bake for 3 more minutes to cook evenly

Oatmeal Maple Bacon Bourbon Cookies

1 lb bacon

215 g flour
4 g salt
150 oats
Sea salt

110 g brown sugar
145 g sugar
2 eggs
230g bacon fat, butter mixture
10 g vanilla

  1. Preheat oven to 425

  2. Bake bacon for 20 minutes until crisp, remove from oven and use render fat for butter, bacon fat mix

  3. Reduce oven temperature to 360F

  4. Finely chop bacon pieces

  5. Cream together sugars, butter, bacon fat, eggs and vanilla

  6. Stir in salt, flour, oats, bacon

  7. Cool cookie dough in the fridge for 5 minutes

  8. Shape into small balls, top with a sprinkle of sea salt and for 8 minutes rotating trays and bake for 4 minutes or until cake tester can come out of cookie clean

Icing


200 g bourbon
100 g cider
50 g maple syrup
1 packet cream cheese

  1. While cookies are baking you can start icing

  2. Remove cream cheese and let stand at room temp to soften

  3. Reduce bourbon in a saucepan and ignite with lighter to burn off the alcohol

  4. Add cider and maple syrup and reduce until it is the consistency of maple syrup.

  5. Combine cream cheese and syrup, top of cooled cookies

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