Elvis, Peanut Butter, Bacon and Banana

 This week we honor Elvis and his love of all things peanut butter, bacon and banana !  

Elvis Presley was renowned for his food cravings such as the Fool's Gold Loaf, a loaf of French white bread filled with a pound each of bacon, peanut butter, and grape jelly.  He also was known to love peanut butter and banana sandwiches with bacon.  

Presley ate the sandwiches with caramelized bananas and crispy bacon on grilled Hawaiian bread, and grilled by his mother or his cook in bacon fat. The Good, the Bad, and the Yummy describes it as consisting of half a banana and a piece of bacon per sandwich, browning the sandwiches in a frying pan with butter, cutting the sandwiches into wedges, and piling them high.

This week's bake are Elvis Cookies made with Chocolate Chips, Bacon, Peanut Butter and Banana !

The recipe is an original Peace, Music, Baking creation adapted from Cupcake Jemma's NY Style Biscoff cookies!

Here is the recipe:  

Elvis NY Style  - Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter Bacon and Banana Cookies 

       

INGREDIENTS:

125g Peanut Butter

190g Cold Butter 

135g Caster Sugar 

135g Light Brown Sugar 

200g Chocolate Chips

100g Bacon  - Cooked and Chopped into small pieces 

40g Crushed Dried Banana pieces

420g Plain Flour 

10g Baking Powder 

1 tsp Salt 

2 Eggs 

1 tsp vanilla

INSTRUCTIONS:

Peanut Butter Filling

use a couple of teaspoons to make 12 dollops of peanut butter and place them on a tray in the freeze for 1 hour

Cookies

Add butter and sugars to mixer and mix until just combined

Add chocolate chips, chopped bacon and chopped dried banana pieces and mix until combined

Mix flour, salt and baking powder together and add all at once to batter at low speed until a sandy mixture is formed

Add 2 eggs and mix on low until it forms a dough 

Form dough into 100 -125 g balls and use thumb to push in at the center and add frozen peanut butter; wrap dough around peanut butter to form a ball and place on tray

Freeze dough balls for min 2 hours - overnight

Bake for 15-17 minutes until cookies on golden on the outside and crackly

Let cool for 5 minutes and then place on rack to cool

Here are some pictures from the bake:

Have a great day !    Rob and Linda