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Treat dad to bacon-chocolate chip
cookies this Father’s Day
adult to help you preheat the
oven to 350 degrees. Put alumi-
num foil on the baking sheet (to
help make clean up easier), and
place the bacon in a single layer
on the sheet (we usually use a
whole pack of bacon but it’s up
to you how much you want to
add).
Cover the bacon with
brown sugar and then bake it
for 10 minutes.
Use tongs to fl ip the bacon
and then bake it for another
10-15 minutes (time may vary
based on your oven. It’s impor-
tant to make sure that it’s com-
pletely cooked; food poisoning
is not a good gift!). After you’ve
cooked your bacon place it on
a cooling rack. When it’s cool
enough to handle, ask your
adult to chop it into tiny pieces
for you and then set it to the
side. You want the bacon pieces
to be about the size of a choco-
late chip.
Turn the oven down the 325
degrees after that.
While your bacon is cook-
ing, you can sing and dance
in your kitchen or you can get
started on your cookie dough,
both are totally valid and ac-
ceptable options.
Sift the fl our and baking
soda in a small bowl, set that to
Bag the cookies
with this nifty trick
By LAUREN MURPHY
Of No Adults Allowed
Wrapping gifts is probably
the worst part of gift giving;
luckily, this cute and simple gift
bag not only wraps the cookies
to give it an added layer of cute-
ness, but also doesn’t require a
lot of skill.
Cut an inch and a half or so
off the top of the bag. Fold them
diagonally so the top corners are
touching in the middle, crease it
so you can fi nd the fold again
later but don’t secure it yet.
Use craft paper to cut out
a tie, ask an adult for help with
the scissors, the top of your tie
should be a little shorter than
the length of the collar. Tape it
to the collar so the “knot” of the
tie is even with the bottom edge
of the collar.
Now refold the corners of
the collar and tape them down.
Taste one of the cookies to
make sure that they’re still good
and then put the remaining
cookies into the bag. Tape or
glue the collar to the top of the
bag. If you want to leave the bag
open you can or you can tape
the sides of it closed.
And that’s all there is to it,
Happy Father’s Day!
the side for later.
In a medium bowl, cream
butter with white and brown
sugar.
Add vanilla, egg and egg
yolk to the bowl with the but-
ter and sugar, mix it up until it’s
creamy and light.
Add the fl our mixture and
mix it again.
Now add the chopped ba-
con and the chocolate chips,
stir it up until it’s distributed
evenly.
Line the baking sheet(s)
with parchment paper. Put
tablespoon(ish) size balls on the
sheets and bake for 13-15 min-
utes, you’ll know they’re done
when the edges are brown.
Remove from the oven, let the
cookies sit on the pan for a little
bit before moving them to a
cooling rack or they’ll fall apart.
The most effi cient way
we’ve found to do this is to have
two or three baking sheets, this
recipe makes about 36 cookies,
then while one pan is cooling,
the other can be baking.
• Pandas spend 12 hours a day eating.
• A group of fl amingos is called a
fl amboyance.
• The fi rst food eaten
in space was apple sauce.
• Hippopotamus milk
is pink.
• In some parts of East
Asia you are born at age
one instead of zero.
• 20 percent of all
oxygen that you breathe is
used by your brain.
• Monkeys can go bald when they’re old,
just like humans.
Why are the things
you’re looking for
always in the last
place you check?
Because when you fi nd
it, you stop looking.
By LAUREN MURPHY
Of No Adults Allowed
When I was younger my
dad used to travel a lot for work.
Since he wasn’t always home,
my family had to fi nd some
creative ways to stay close.
Family dinners were replaced
with a phone call every night,
weekends were reserved for
watching TV shows together,
and occasionally, we girls
would make him some food for
the road.
This particular recipe is a
little more time consuming
and you’ll defi nitely need some
adult help, but it is one of my
dad’s favorite cookies.
Since this one takes a little
more time you need to put on
some good music to dance and
sing to while you wait between
steps.
What you’ll need:
One package of bacon, yes
you read that correctly, these
cookies have bacon in them.
2 ¼ cups of fl our
½ teaspoon of baking soda
¾ cup melted butter
½ cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon of pure
vanilla extract
1 whole egg
1 egg yolk
2 cups of chocolate chips
The fi rst thing you need to
do is cook the bacon. Ask an
NO
ADULTS
ALLOWED
Vocab Time!
There’s a couple of
terms in this recipe you
might not be familiar with.
Here’s what it all means:
Sifting – The process
of
stirring
something,
typically dry goods (like
fl our), to break up lumps
and clumps. Sifting helps
make sure that all your dry
goods blend evenly.
Cream – Beating some-
thing, like butter, with:
wooden spoon, electronic
mixer, until it’s smooth and
creamy.
• The opposite sides of dice always add
up to seven.
• An average orca whale can swallow an
entire sea lion whole.
• Baby kangaroos
are roughly the size of a
grape at birth.
• Ostriches can cover
up to 16 feet in a single
stride.
• Some of the fi rst
fl ags on pirate ships were
red, not black.
• The most common gifts on Father’s Day
are neckties.