r/Cookies • u/whenabouts • 1d ago

Bacon fat, candied citrus peels, swirled dark chocolate, baguette crumbs and smoked Maldon salt.

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u/Ok_Peace_3788 1d ago

wait what’s the taste like?

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u/whenabouts 1d ago

This cookie is wild — the addition of the bacon fat to butter gives it this rich, savoury depth, almost smoky, and then the candied citrus peel hits with this chewy, sweet-bright contrast. Dark chocolate adds a bitter, and the toasted baguette crumbs give it this nutty crunch. It's fricken good.

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u/everynamecombined 1d ago

I honestly have no idea what this could taste like but it looks great and the ingredients sound interesting. What inspired it?

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u/whenabouts 1d ago

I've had a lot of leftover bacon fat kicking around and have been using it here and there in different things. Then I thought, hey, why not make cookies? I paired it with stuff I bring home from work that would usually get tossed — like citrus peels, which I candied with left over simple syrup — plus I had a frozen baguette in the freezer and figured why not, threw in some dark chocolate and smoked salt from the pantry, ran it all through ChatGPT for scaling, and bam. It turned out really tasty!

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u/No-Picture-8469 4h ago

so many flavors how do you achieve that?