Bacon chocolate chip cookies

Bacon chocolate chip cookies with pieces of crispy bacon.

Drop-dead delicious. Crispy bacon and toasted pecan pieces help our already amazing chocolate chip cookie recipe boldly go to the next dessert level, providing a depth of flavor entirely unexpected in everyone's favorite go-to cookie. Mix up a batch of these sweet and smoky bacon chocolate chip cookies for Father's Day—or any day!

Yield: 2 dozen cookies

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Ingredients

2¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 cup butter, softened
¾ cup granulated sugar
¾ cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 large eggs
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup milk chocolate chips
½ cup crumbled bacon
½ cup toasted pecan pieces

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
  2. Combine flour, baking soda and salt. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
  3. Gradually mix in flour mixture. Stir in both kinds of chocolate chips, bacon and pecan pieces.
  4. Drop rounded tablespoons of dough onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
  5. Bake 9 to 11 minutes. Cool cookies on baking sheets for 2 minutes. Then transfer to racks to cool completely.
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