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Bacon Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Ingredients
  

  • 2 ¼ cups flour
  • ½ tsp. kosher salt
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • 1 ½ sticks soft butter
  • 1 cup light brown sugar
  • ½ cup regular sugar
  • 1 T. vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 cup NESTLE semisweet chips plus 1/2 cup bittersweet Ghiradhelli chips and 1/2c Ghirardelli Milk chocolate chips.
  • ½ pound high quality bacon cooked until very crisp and chopped
  • Caramel sauce

Instructions
 

  • Beat butter and both sugars until well blended.
  • Add in vanilla, egg and yolk until light and creamy.
  • Add in flour, salt and baking soda just until incorporated.
  • Stir in chocolate chips by hand.
  • Chill 4 hours.
  • Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment.
  • Drop by 2 ounce mounds onto parchment. (If you like extra chocolate, place a few more chips in the top but beware that's a lot of chocolate!)
  • Place in oven and IMMEDIATELY lower temp to 375. Bake 9 minutes or until tops golden.
  • When cookies come out, immediately press in pieces of bacon.
  • Let cool on cookie sheets.
  • Drizzle with caramel.
  • MAKES 21 COOKIES (2 OUNCES EACH)
  • (For each new batch, let oven come back up to 425 and repeat)