Maple & Bacon Cookies (the special version!)

When I saw the link to these on twitter (If you're on there Foodista is a good follow!) I had to make them. This is my 'converted' version. If you like sweet and salty flavours and bacon with your pancakes & maple syrup you will love these!

They were v easy to make and if you did the bacon the night before (or buy some ready cooked) they would be a quick sunday brunch treat! These were my last naughty bakings before I jumped back into Weight Watchers - but I have been have them for breakfast all week anyway! If you don't try these you are mad!

1/2 cup df spread (I used Pure Olive)
1/4 & 1/8 (as in a quarter cup and a half) brown sugar
1/4 & 1/8 (as in a quarter cup and a half) sugaracked brown sugar
1 egg
1 tbsp maple syrup
Drop of maple syrup flavouring (optional - I like a distinct flavour!)
1 & 1/4 gf flour
1/3 tsp baking soda
Pinch salt
220g pack of streaky bacon

• Cook bacon, drain on a paper towel, and crumble. Not too small - you want bacony chunks!
• Preheat oven to 190c
• Beat together spread, brown sugar and sugar in a large mixing bowl until fluffy.
• Add the egg and maple syrup (and maple syrup flavouring if using). Beat for 1 more minute.
• Combine the flour, baking soda and salt in another bowl.
• Stir dry ingredients in 2 lots into the wet mixture until incorporated. Do not over mix or your batter with be tough.
• Stir in the bacon pieces. Eat a couple just to check they're nice.
• Drop by tablespoons onto cookie sheets. (I recommen silicon liners or the like here!)
• Bake for 8-10 minutes, until golden brown.
• They will be very soft when they come out so dont try to stick them on the cooling rack straight away!
• Make sure you have one while they are still warm - this is a treat you should not deny yourselves!

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Bacon Maple Cookies

Maple & Pecan Cupcakes

I seem to be having a bit of trouble formatting my posts so excuse the layout!

These were very nice, and I put this down to (apart from my baking skills ;-)) the maple extract I got. The link to it is in the title, I have tried to make them with maple syrup before but they just don't have the concentrated maple flavour. I think this would make an excellent cake too, a tea time treat.

1/4 cup melted coconut butter/oil

1/4 cup coconut milk

6 eggs

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp maple flavouring

1/2 cup sifted coconut flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

almost a 1/2 cup of pecans, chopped (more for decoration if you are showing off like me!)

Preheat oven to 175c

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  mix together the butter, milk, eggs, sugar, salt and maple flavouring
• 
  
  combine the coconut flour with the baking powder then whisk into the batter until there are no lumps
• 
  
  fold the nuts into the batter
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  pour into cup cake cases
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  bake at 175 for 10-15 minutes until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.

I frosted these with a maple and marshmallow frosting with my trusty star nozzle, though they could happily be naked or drizzled with a glaze:

Maple Marshmallow Frosting

1/2 cup vegetable shortning

3/4 cup icing sugar

1 cup Marshmallow Fluff (you can get it from the same place as the Maple Flavouring)

3/4 tsp Maple Flavouring

Whisk everything togetherthen pipe or spoon onto your cupcakes.

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