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
Preheat oven to 350 f
Cream butter, sugars, egg and vanilla together
Silt in dry ingredients minus chocolate chips
Stir in chocolate chips
Shape into small balls on a baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes
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
Preheat oven to 425
Bake bacon for 20 minutes until crisp, remove from oven and use render fat for butter, bacon fat mix
Reduce oven temperature to 360F
Finely chop bacon pieces
Cream together sugars, butter, bacon fat, eggs and vanilla
Stir in salt, flour, oats, bacon
Cool cookie dough in the fridge for 5 minutes
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
While cookies are baking you can start icing
Remove cream cheese and let stand at room temp to soften
Reduce bourbon in a saucepan and ignite with lighter to burn off the alcohol
Add cider and maple syrup and reduce until it is the consistency of maple syrup.
Combine cream cheese and syrup, top of cooled cookies