Banana Bacon Cookies

When it comes to food, I really am a bit of a mad scientist.  I love strange combinations.  My favourite flavour of soup is strawberry and I like korma sauce with my burgers.  So when I found this recipe for Banana Bacon Cookies, I figured that further investigation was very much warranted.  As I mentioned in my last post, my boyfriend is visiting at the moment, and one thing nerdy males seem to love is bacon, so this seemed a good time to try my latest experiment.

In the style that saw me put "disaster" in the title of this blog, there were various muckups. Not least that my measuring jug appears to have vanished in my summer absence.  Also, the recipe was on a laptop in the other room, so going by "I think it was a tablespoon" when it was actually a teaspoon and just generally forgetting things leads to plenty fun times.  So here goes my very much approximated recipe:

Ingredients

Roughly 300g self-raising flour
Roughly 250g of caster sugar
A tablespoon of cinnamon
1/4 tablespoon of salt
250g of butter (well, Stork actually)
2 eggs
4 mashed bananas
300g pack of bacon, cooked to crisp and with any big chunks of fat cut off

The how

Put flour, cinnamon and salt in one bowl. Forget to mix it and end up not bothering because it was such a small bowl it would have made the flour go everywhere.

Cream butter and sugar by hand, because electric mixers are for wimps.

Beat eggs, then add to the creamed mixture a bit at a time, mixing all the while.

Add mashed bananas and mix.

Add flour mixture (supposed to be the other way round, but the flour bowl was way too small) and mix some more).

Add bacon and...you guessed it, mix it all!

Suddenly remember to pre-heat oven to 200C.

Grease some baking sheets (I forgot to get greaseproof paper, surprise surprise) and drop heaped tablespoons of the mixture on, leaving room for them to spread out a bit.

Bung cookies in the oven for about 12 minutes.

Attempt to let them cool before scoffing.

Fail miserably.  Have 3 before dignity intervenes.

The verdict

I was a little bit dubious about these.  I'm not a member of the Cult of Bacon like my other half (really more of a beef sausage sort of girl)  When I got them out of the oven, they looked a little too cakey and spongey for cookies, so I was doubly worried.  They turned out to be awesome!  So much for keeping some for tomorrow's guests!

I highly recommend these cookies and will definitely be making them again!  Another victory for crazy food combinations!