12 Days of Christmas

Chocolate Chip Bacon Cookies

We love to eat during the holidays and these cookies have become a tradition at our holiday gatherings.  Chocolate is awesome and bacon is awesome, but together? Let me reassure you, these cookies are amazing! Chocolate and Bacon may sound a little crazy, but it’s the classic sweet & salty combination and there are never any left (even when I double and triple the recipe). I get asked to make them all the time.  They’re super simple to make and happen to be gluten free too.

Ingredients:

• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 1.5 cup of semisweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup of coconut oil
• 3/4 cup of maple syrup (1/2 cup for the cookie batter, 1/4 cup for the candied bacon)
• 2 eggs
• 3 cups of almond flour (if you can’t find any you can just grind up almonds in a food processor)
• 5 pieces of raw bacon

Instructions:

1. Preheat your oven to bake at 350°F.
2. In a medium size mixing bowl, toss uncooked bacon in ¼ cup of maple syrup.
3. Lay out the bacon on a parchment-lined baking sheet.  Keep spaced so they don’t touch.
4. Bake the bacon at350°F for 15-20 minutes.
5. Remove the bacon from oven, and allow to cool.
6. Crumble candied bacon for cookie batter after it has cooled.
7. Heat oven to 375°F.
8. In a medium-sized mixing bowl combine the dry ingredients.
9. In a small mixing bowl beat eggs, 1/2 cup maple syrup, and vanilla extract with a hand mixer.
10. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and beat with a hand mixer until combined.
11. Add melted coconut oil into batter and continue to blend until combined.
12. Stir in chocolate chips and the candied bacon.
13. Drop balls of dough on parchment-lined baking sheet, about a tablespoon in size.
14. Bake cookies for 15 minutes at 375°F.
15. Let cool and serve.
16. Enjoy!

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