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Butter Pecan Cookies with Bacon and Maple


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#1 crankycat

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 05:37 PM

The main cookie recipe is from Martha Stewart Living. *I added 3 strips of crisp bacon crumbled and about 1 tablespoon of real maple syrup. After flattening, for the sugar on the top, I used a large crystal decorating sugar. These were fricken' amazing---you are going to want to double/triple the batch. Butter Pecan CookiesFrom: MarthaStewart.comThese delicate, buttery cookies, which get their crunchy texture from toasted pecans and a sugar coating, practically melt in your mouth. Makes 12.3/4 cup pecans1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature1/3 cup sugar, plus more for coating1 teaspoon vanilla extract1/8 teaspoon salt1 cup all-purpose flourPreheat oven to 350 degrees. On a baking sheet, toast pecans until fragrant, about 6 minutes. Let cool completely; finely chop.With an electric mixer, cream butter and 1/3 cup sugar until light, about 1 minute. Beat in vanilla, salt, and flour, scraping down sides of bowl, just until dough comes together. Fold in pecans. (*Add bacon and maple syrup here.)Separate dough into 12 pieces; squeeze dough to shape into balls. Roll in sugar. Place, 3 inches apart, on a baking sheet. Gently flatten with the bottom of a glass (reshape sides if necessary). Sprinkle with sugar.Bake until golden brown, rotating sheet halfway through, about 15 minutes. Sprinkle with more sugar. Cool cookies on a wire rack.

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 05:57 PM

Good lord! I am making these tomorrow!

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 06:41 PM

Good lord! I am making these tomorrow!

I am not kidding. You NEED to make more than the single recipe because you will eat at least a 1/3 of them right out of the oven before they even cool down.

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Posted 24 April 2012 - 05:41 PM

Everybody loved these BTW. I used 7 strips of bacon for a 2x of this recipe and all were in agreement that it could have been upped. SWMBO's niece and 2 nephews loved them! When I told them there was bacon in it their heads pretty much exploded from the concept of bacon cookies! The little girl (3 years old) said they were the best cookies she ever had! The 1 year old just kept eating them not knowing about the bacon but more than content with their qualitative deliciousness!

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Posted 10 December 2017 - 06:53 AM

I just made these again. I almost, but not quite, forgot how good they are. Screw the cookie exchange, I am going sit around pantsless and eat them all by myself.

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Posted 12 December 2017 - 05:56 AM

So, silly question.  How noticeable is the maple syrup?  1 TSB doesn't seem like a considerable amount here.  Or is the goal to just enough to make them fragrant.  




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