Bacon Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies

Bacon Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies are a  sweet chewy chocolate chip cookie filled with little surprise bites of salty pretzels and bacon.

I should call these Bacon Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies the Happy Couple Cookie because there are bits of bacon and pretzels for the men and chocolate for the ladies. It's the best of both worlds all mixed up in  a gooey cookie goodness.

I think Ruth Graves Wakefield is on of my top 10 list of favorite people because she invented the chocolate chip cookie. Ruth owned Toll House Inn, in Massachusetts, a very popular restaurant that featured home cooking in the 1930s. She published a  cookbook, Toll House Tried and True Recipes, which had in it the recipe for Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookies. This recipe quickly became America's favorite cookie.  American's are passionate about their chocolate chip cookies, with so many families believing their grandma had the best recipe.

For my Bacon Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies, I start with my all time favorite recipe that I cut from an M&M bag back in 1993. The recipe is worn, stained and has been taped with a large piece of clear packing tape to my recipe card for preservation's sake.   Warm memories of pulling this recipe out late in the evening when all my  little kids had been tucked into bed so my teens and I could eat warm cookies and cold milk in peace.

Bacon Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies

Gina

Bacon Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies are a sweet chewy chocolate chip cookie filled with little surprise bites of salty pretzels and bacon.

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Course Cookies

Servings 2 dozen

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ 2 cups all-purpose flour
• ▢ 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• ▢ 3/4 teaspoon salt
• ▢ 1 cup real butter softened
• ▢ 2/3 cup granulated sugar
• ▢ 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• ▢ 1 large egg
• ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ▢ 1 3/4 cup chocolate chips
• ▢ 3/4 coarsely crushed salted pretzels
• ▢ 1/2 cup crumbled hard crispy bacon pieces

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
• In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt, set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy
• Beat in egg and vanilla
• Gradually blend in flour mixture
• Stir in chocolate chips, pretzels, and bacon
• Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake 8-10 minutes for chewy cookies or 10-12 minutes for a crispy cookie

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