BAAAAAAACON!

My human felt kinda bad about letting me watch that Sarah lady shoot a reindeer on TV, so she decided not to wait until Christmas eve to make the Bacon cookies. I'm still a little afraid of accidentally getting shot, so I traded the stupid deer ears in for an even stupider Santa hat.

Soooo not a fan of the Santa hat.

In case you missed it, when I was talking about Pug Bars the other day Murphy's mom (hi Mary, I love you!) left a recipe for her special Bacon cookies in the comments. When I saw it had bacon bits *and* bacon grease in it, I begged my human to make me the cookies for Christmas.

Of course she totally said no. No to using the oven. No to following a recipe. And a great big fat NO to the bacon grease (especially the bacon grease). But then my human made the cookies from the make-your-own kit and it wasn't so bad. She didn't burn the house down and the cookies came out supertasty. So she agreed to try making cookies from a real, live recipe. And thanks to Mary & Murphy, the recipe she agreed to make has bacon in it.

I don't know what it's like at your house, but bacon is not a food group around here. It's kinda sad, but I ended up in a mostly-vegetable home. Which means I've eaten lots of carrots, but never a bacon. I don't exactly know what a bacon is, but just saying the word tastes good. Seriously. Say it: baaaaaaaa-con. Hmmm.

BAAAAACON!

My human was kinda freaked out by the bacon. The raw bacon. The cooking bacon. The grease of the bacon. The crackle and pop of smokin' hot bacon. She totally didn't feel the bacon love. But I totally did.

When the bacon was done cooking, it went in the bowl with a bunch of other stuff (like carob chips!). I wasn't allowed to help this time because last time I accidentally ate some stuff, so my human used her thumbs to make it all turn to cookies. She even made some tiny little cookies so we cook eat a whole bunch of them at once.

Best of all, the recipe made enough for two batches so we now have bacon cookies in the freezer, just waiting to be made. I haven't eaten this batch of cookies yet, but I already can't wait for the next batch.

Here's Mary's not-so-secret cookie recipe so you can get your human to make them for you too. If my human can do it, yours totally can so don't let them say no. I'm pretty sure they'd work for kitties too!

Murphy's K-9 Biscuits
{aka Bacon Cookies}

3 cups flour (any combo white, wheat, rye, cornmeal, or oatmeal)
(My human uses 1 1/2 white flour, 1 1/2 cornmeal)
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 cup (congealed, solid) bacon grease!! or
(very dull tasting) Crisco
1 egg
1/2 cup liquid (beef or chicken broth, low sodium; thin gravy, milk.)
Real Bacon bacon bits, a handful or two, if you want. I certainly want, so does Murph.

Combine the flours and garlic powder. And maybe some bacon bits. Or carob chips, hmm, that might be cool. Add the BACON GREASE!! (or Crisco. Whatever.) Blend until crumbly. Add egg and liquid and mix. Form dough into balls and knead a bit. Add small drops of water if dough is not sticking together to form a ball. May be stored in frig one week at this point, or frozen up to 6 months.

Roll out 1/4 inch to 3/8 inch thick and cut into shapes with cookie cutter. My human uses a teeny tiny heart shaped cutter and rolls the dough thin to make tiny cookies and more of them. (She says, always leave 'em wanting more. I think she means me and Murph wanting more bacon cookies.) Bake at 350 degrees 20 to 30 minutes, until edges start to look golden brown. How long it takes to cook depends on how thin you roll the dough, and how big the cookies are, so watch the first batch carefully so you know how long to bake them. Cool on wire rack nor newspapers on countertop, out of reach of drooling pooches.

Big cookies: 2 dozen.
Small cookies: maybe as many as 5 or 6 dozen. It just depends on how thin the dough, and how big the cookie cutter.