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Cookie Bars with Bacon & Dark Beer

by baketotheroots
October 14, 2016
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    Well… I guess we are back to more “unusual” flavor combinations. Simple cookies with chocolate or caramel can be done by everybody :P My motto is always – experiment! If you have a nice recipe, try making something new out of it. Sometimes you will fail, but most of the time you will probably end up with something new and delicious – maybe even better than the recipe before…. ;)

    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots
    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots

    If you know my blog, you might have noticed already, I like it sweet and salty at the same time and also more the unusual stuff…

    Potato Chip Peanut Butter Cookies – check!
    Mini Cupcakes with Bourbon, maple sirup and glazed bacon – check!
    Cookies with salted pretzels, potato chips, chocolate and basically all leftovers from your christmas baking – check!
    ;)

    I posted it already on my Instagram account and on Facebook – tomorrow (or in case you read this some other day it will be in the past – yesterday, the day before, a week ago, a month or year who knows) I will be/was in a TV show called “Sweet & Easy – Enie backt”. It’s a baking show on Sixx and guess what I was baking with the host Enie? No cake, no cupcakes… much easier :P

    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots
    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots
    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots
    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots
    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots
    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots

    Well, it is written here all over already – Cookie Bars! Ernie wanted something unusual so I brought her chocolate, bacon and beer :P I think she liked it – or let’s say she did not complain after eating some of the cookie bars :P They are extremely delicious and highly addictive I’d say. The combination of ingredients might sound a bit weird at the beginning, but the result is awesome! If you don’t believe me, try it for yourself :)

    INGREDIENTS / ZUTATEN

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    (12 cookie bars)

    For the dough:
    3/4 cup (170g) butter, at room temperature
    1/2 cup (100g) brown sugar
    1/2 cup (100g) sugar
    1 egg
    2 tsp. vanilla extract
    2 cups (260g) all-purpose flour
    1 tsp. baking soda
    3 tbsp. dark beer (e.g. Guinness Stout)
    2 slices of fried bacon, chopped
    3/4 cup (100g) chocolate chips

    For the topping:
    8.5 oz. (240g) caramels
    1/4 cup (60ml) dark beer (e.g. Guinness Stout)
    1 tbsp. peanut butter
    3/4 cup (35g) salted potato chips
    1/4 cup (20g) pretzels
    2-3 slices of fried bacon, chopped
    1/2 cup (60g) chocolate chips
    melted chocolate to drizzle

    (12 Cookie Bars)

    Für den Teig:
    170g weiche Butter
    100g brauner Zucker
    100g Zucker
    1 Ei
    2 TL Vanille Extrakt
    260g Mehl (Type 405)
    1 TL Natron
    3 EL dunkles Bier (z.B. Guinness Stout)
    2 Scheiben Speck, frittiert und gehackt
    100g Schokodrops

    Für das Topping:
    240g Karamellbonbons
    60ml dunkles Bier (z.B. Guinness Stout)
    1 EL Erdnussbutter
    35g Kartoffelchips, gesalzen
    20g Salzbrezeln
    2-3 Scheiben Speck, frittiert und gebackt
    60g Schokoladendrops
    geschmolzene Schokolade zum Verzieren

    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots
    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots
    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots
    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots
    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots
    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots
    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots
    Cookie Bars with Bacon and Beer | Bake to the roots

    DIRECTIONS / ZUBEREITUNG

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    1. Preheat the oven to 350˚F (175°C). Line a 9×9 inch (23x23cm) square baking pan with baking parchment and set aside. Fry the bacon for the batter and topping and let drain on a paper towel.

    2. In a large bowl mix the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla extract and mix until well combined. Mix the flour with baking soda and add together with the beer to the bowl – mix until well combined. Add the chopped bacon and chocolate chips and fold in. Transfer to the baking pan. The dough is quite thick, so you have to press it into the form and the edges. Smooth out the top and bake for 24-26 minutes – the edges should have a bit of a golden color. Take out of the oven and let cool down completely in the pan.

    3. Add the caramels and beer to a small saucepan and heat up until the caramels are melted – don’t go to high with the temperature, or the caramel will burn. Let bubble over low heat for about 5-8 minutes – you need a thick mixture but it should be still a bit liquidy, so don’t overcook it ;)

    4. Cut the fried bacon into small pieces, crush the potato chips and salted pretzels a bit, so you have (not too) small pieces. Mix with the bacon and chocolate chips and set aside.

    5. When the cookie is cooled, spread the beer caramel evenly on top. Spread the peanut butter on top of that (works best with a small spatula or the back of a spoon) and sprinkle with the potato chips-pretzel-bacon-chocolate-chip mixture. Press a bit into the caramel and let cool down.

    6. Take the big cookie out of the pan and cut into bars – drizzle with melted chocolate and serve.

    1. Den Ofen auf 175°C (350°F) vorheizen. Eine quadratische 23x23cm (9×9 inch) Backform mit Backpapier auslegen und zur Seite stellen. Den Speck anbraten und auf einem Papiertuch etwas abtropfen lassen.

    2. In einer großen Shcüssel die Butter mit den beiden Zuckersorten hell und luftig aufschlagen. Das Ei und den Vanille Extrakt zugeben und gut verrühren. Das Mehl mit dem Natron vermischen und zusammen mit dem Bier in die Schüssel geben und gut verrrühren. Den klein gehackten Speck und Schokoladendrops zugeben und unterheben. Den Teig in die Form füllen/pressen und glattstreichen. Im Backoven für 24-26 minuten backen – die Ränder sollten schon leicht Farbe bekommen haben. Aus dem Ofen nehmen und in der Form komplett abkühlen lassen.

    3. Die Karamellbonbons und das Bier in einen kleinen Topf geben und bei mittlerer Hitze das Karamell schmelzen. Die Mischung wird etwas aufschäumen und dann schön blubbern – unter ständigem Rühren für etwa 5-8 Minuten andicken lassen.

    4. Den Speck in kleine Stücke schneiden, die Chips und Salzbrezeln in grobe Stücke brechen (nicht zu klein) und alles mit den Schokoladendrops vermischen.

    5. Wenn der Cookie abgekühlt ist, das Bierkaramell auf der Oberfläche verteilen. Die Erdnussbutter darauf verteilen – geht am Besten mit einem kleinen Spatel oder der Rückseite eines Löffels – und dann die Chips-Brezel-Speck-Schokodrops-Mischung darauf verteilen und etwas andrücken.

    6. Den Cookie aus der Form nehmen und in 12 Quadrate schneiden – mit etwas geschmolzener Schokolade verzieren und servieren.

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    Cookie Bars with Bacon & Dark Beer

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    • Author: Bake to the roots
    • Prep Time: 00:30
    • Cook Time: 00:26
    • Total Time: 01:20
    • Yield: 12 1x
    • Category: Brownies
    • Cuisine: American
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    The combination might sound weird, but it is just awesome – delicious cookie bars with bacon, pretzels, chocolate, caramel, and dark beer :)


    Ingredients

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    For the dough:
    3/4 cup (170g) butter, at room temperature
    1/2 cup (100g) brown sugar
    1/2 cup (100g) sugar
    1 egg
    2 tsp. vanilla extract
    2 cups (260g) all-purpose flour
    1 tsp. baking soda
    3 tbsp. dark beer (e.g. Guinness Stout)
    2 slices of fried bacon, chopped
    3/4 cup (100g) chocolate chips

    For the topping:
    8.5 oz. (240g) caramels
    1/4 cup (60ml) dark beer (e.g. Guinness Stout)
    1 tbsp. peanut butter
    3/4 cup (35g) salted potato chips
    1/4 cup (20g) pretzels
    2-3 slices of fried bacon, chopped
    1/2 cup (60g) chocolate chips
    melted chocolate to drizzle


    Instructions

    1. Preheat the oven to 350˚F (175°C). Line a 9×9 inch (23x23cm) square baking pan with baking parchment and set aside. Fry the bacon for the batter and topping and let drain on a paper towel.
     
    2. In a large bowl mix the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla extract and mix until well combined. Mix the flour with baking soda and add together with the beer to the bowl – mix until well combined. Add the chopped bacon and chocolate chips and fold in. Transfer to the baking pan. The dough is quite thick, so you have to press it into the form and the edges. Smooth out the top and bake for 24-26 minutes – the edges should have a bit of a golden color. Take out of the oven and let cool down completely in the pan.
     
    3. Add the caramels and beer to a small saucepan and heat up until the caramels are melted – don’t go to high with the temperature, or the caramel will burn. Let bubble over low heat for about 5-8 minutes – you need a thick mixture but it should be still a bit liquidy, so don’t overcook it ;)
     
    4. Cut the fried bacon into small pieces, crush the potato chips and salted pretzels a bit, so you have (not too) small pieces. Mix with the bacon and chocolate chips and set aside.
     
    5. When the cookie is cooled, spread the beer caramel evenly on top. Spread the peanut butter on top of that (works best with a small spatula or the back of a spoon) and sprinkle with the potato chips-pretzel-bacon-chocolate-chip mixture. Press a bit into the caramel and let cool down.
     
    6. Take the big cookie out of the pan and cut into bars – drizzle with melted chocolate and serve.

    Notes

    Enjoy baking!

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    1. Wibke says:
      9 years ago

      Ein echt perverser, aber auch echt leckerer Keks! Kam super an, aber das nächste Mal würde ich weniger Zucker für den Teig verwenden. Ist doch arg süss.

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      • baketotheroots says:
        9 years ago

        Hallo Wibke,

        ja die Cookie Bars sind die volle Dröhnung – in jeder Hinsicht – auch beim Zuckergehalt.
        Kann man aber natürlich immer etwas reduzieren. Sind ja auch noch genug andere Sachen drin mit der ein oder anderen Kalorie :P

        Viele Grüße,
        Marc

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