Bacon fat for the WIN!

[OakLeaf]

I don't eat pork, but when I make chicken stock, I recover the fat and store it in the freezer. Then I'll use it for cooking fat when I want that chicken flavor.

[emily_in_nc]

Those cookies sound SO GOOD, GLC. I'd be interested to know what is in 'em in place of the "grain"!

[GLC1968]

Sorry for the delay, you guys. I have been without internet for awhile!

Here is the recipe:

Paleo Treat: Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies

Ingredients –
5 oz almond flour (best to measure by weight, not volume)
¼ t baking soda
¼ t sea salt
2 T pastured butter, melted
2 T bacon fat, melted
3 T raw local honey
2 t water
1 t vanilla
1/3 cup extra dark chocolate chips (I used Guittard Extra Dark)
1/3 cup raw pecans, chopped

Directions -
Mix flour, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl and set aside. Melt butter and bacon fat until liquid. With a whisk, mix honey, water and vanilla in with melted fats. Combine wet ingredients with dry and mix until all almond flour is incorporated. Mix in chips and nuts.

Drop by spoonfuls onto parchment lined baking sheet. Lightly flatten with your hand (they don’t spread much when baking). Bake at 325F for 8 – 12 minutes until lightly browned. Let cool slightly before removing from baking sheet to cooling rack.

Makes about 18 cookies.


We eat quite a bit of bacon and we keep all the fat so we have a ton. I don't know what prompted me to add it to this recipe, but it was a huge success! We cook a ton of stuff in it from eggs to asparagus to kale... It also works really well to get a dog to take his pills.

My next attempt will be using it to make mayo but I haven't tried that just yet.

[Owlie]

Ooh. Think they'd taste okay with milk or semi-sweet chips? (I cannot stand dark chocolate.)

[GLC1968]

Yes, they'd probably work with a sweeter chip. The whole cookie might be sweeter, but with the slight saltiness of the bacon fat, that might be extra delicious!