Tuesdays with Dorie BWD: Mary Dodd’s Maple-Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

July 14, 2026 at 12:01 am | Posted in BWD, cookies & bars, groups, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 2 Comments
Tags: baking, brownies, cookies

Mary Dodd, Dorie’s recipe tester and right-hand lady, has brilliantly taken a plate of chocolate chip pancakes with a side of bacon and a river of maple syrup and turned it into a cookie. Her Maple-Bacon Chocolate Chip cookies remind me of being in high school and grabbing a booth at IHOP with my friends.

I don’t eat pork, so I used (gasp) turkey bacon for the bacon bits. I had to replace the bacon fat in the dough with extra butter, since turkey bacon doesn’t really render much of anything, and I used smoked flaky salt to finish my baked cookies to bump up the smoky flavor that may have been missing with my swaps. I scooped the cookies a bit smaller than the recipe says (maybe 3 tablespoons instead of 1/4 cup), but they still baked up thin, wrinkly and bendy, just as Dorie describes, and they were still pretty big.

If you like sweet and salty, then these are for you. A cup of coffee is a natural go-with here.

We’re baking from the book Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple by Dorie Greenspan every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the TWD Blogroll!

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These look amazing Steph! Can’t wait to make them!

Comment by Mardi (eat. live. travel. write.)— July 14, 2026 #

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Wow great review; coffee, cookies, IHOP. These cookies sound like the ones that are almost a meal.

Comment by Diane Zwang— July 14, 2026 #

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a whisk and a spoon