To say you don’t like cookies, would be like saying you don’t like happiness. Or puppies. Or air to breathe. Sure, there’s probably a variety of cookie you may avoid due to preference, allergies, or dietary restrictions – but who the heck doesn’t like the idea of a cookie?

I LOVE cookies.When I was young, we used to buy a big tub of cookie dough at Costco, which my brother and I would attack with a spoon (salmonella be damned!). I used to take a to-go box from my college cafeteria, and fill the entire thing with fresh-baked cookies. I’d go so far as to say that most of life’s problems can be calmed with a fresh-baked chocolate chip cookie and a glass of milk (or almond milk in the case of my early-30’s, late-onset lactose intolerance). There’s a great scene in the film Stranger Than Fiction that covers this idea.

Somehow I am not obese.

Last week, my work day was interrupted with the kind of text that makes your eyes go wide. Gina sent me a quick note to tell me she was baking Bacon Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies.I may have audibly gasped. I’m no stranger to bacon. It makes breakfast better. It makes lunch better. Heck, there’s plenty of room for it in dinner, too.

But bacon in cookies is a new concept to me. It’s one of those illuminating concepts that opens up a whole new world for me (queue Aladdin). Now if you’ve spent any time around here hanging out, you’ll know that every page has something delicious on it. I regularly get texts about food that literally and figuratively makes my jaw drop. I hurriedly finished my work day, shut down my computer, and headed home to cram those cookies into my face as fast as possible. When I walked in the front door, I was greeted with the smell of delicious baked goods. It was the kind of warm smell that wraps itself around you, as though a cartoon “smell” line was wafting through the house from the oven.

As Gina explained her process about the cookies, I couldn’t even hear her. My mouth was full of a sweet, savory bite of perfection. While I believe a chocolate chip cookie is the perfect cookie, the addition of bacon toned down the sweetness to create a new kind of experience. It was a little savory, still sweet – and all delicious. I simply can’t recommend these cookies enough. I selfishly didn’t bring the spoils into the office, as I wanted to finish them myself. I figured, who wants to explain to the company vegetarians that these cookies have meat in them. Sounds weird, right? Maybe it is. But it’s delicious and that shouldn’t stop you from preheating your oven right this instant.

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