Late Night Craving | Buttermilk, Maple Syrup, and Bacon.
Isn’t it strange how a brief thought about pancakes can become a true craving at the oddest hour? Late-Night Craving satisfies with both texture and flavor: pancakes and maple syrup with a chaser of bacon. You never know when the urge will strike, so freezing some scoops of cookie dough for baking anytime is a forward-thinking thing to do.
Prep: 8 large or 12 medium slices of bacon; cooked, drained, and cooled.
Ingredients
Step 1:
½ cup unsalted butter, softened
¾ cup sugar
Step 2:
1 large egg
1 Tablespoon pure maple syrup
½ cup buttermilk
Step 3:
1¾ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
Step 4:
8-12 pieces of cooked bacon
Baking Instructions
Step 1:
Cream butter and sugar.
Step 2:
Mix in egg, maple syrup, and buttermilk.
Step 3:
Stir together and mix into above.
Step 4:
Crumble bacon and fold into the dough.
Scoop or drop rounded Tablespoon size cookies 2″ apart on a parchment lined or nonstick baking sheet.
Bake at 375° for 10-12 minutes, or until bottoms are pancake gold.
Let sit for a couple of minutes and transfer to a cooling rack.
Craving more sweet? Top with either
Butter Frosting: 4 Tablespoons softened butter, 2 Tablespoons pure maple syrup, 1 cup powdered sugar, mixed well.
Or
Cream Cheese Frosting: ¼ cup cream cheese, ¼ cup softened butter, 1 Tablespoon maple syrup, 1½ cups powdered sugar, mixed well.
[...] So the meaning behind all of this drivel is my New Year’s (er, March) Resolution to make at least one new recipe each week. And these recipes must come from my own cluttered stockpile of rarely (read: never) used recipes so that the end goal is eating (of course) and also weeding out the clutter. So, I get two resolutions in one: cooking and de-cluttering. And so far I’ve only missed 2 weeks due to travel. This isn’t a cooking blog (at least not yet), so I don’t plan on posting the recipes or results each week (unless they make a particularly good story like the time I made pepper/maple bacon twists and it set off the alarm TEN times in my building. Did I mention how much my neighbors love me?). Speaking of bacon, I do have to post this recipe for “breakfast cookies” that I made recently because it’s a COOKIE made with BACON. [...]