For as simple as a Chocolate Chip Cookie Cone sounds, it actually took me a LONG time to get it just right. On my first try I put a pile of cookie dough in my waffle cone maker, pressed down the lid and expected to be able to roll it into a cone after it cooked. It didn’t quite work out that way however and when I opened the lid half of the cookie dough was stuck to the top grilling plate and the other half was stuck to the bottom.

For my second attempt I took a metal cone, wrapped cookie dough around it and stood it up on a baking sheet in my oven. After about five minutes the dough was running down the cone into a pile on the cookie sheet. On the plus side though, when you’re trying to make a cookie cone and it doesn’t turn out the way you want it you’re left with a bunch of cookie dough to eat, which isn’t a bad problem to have at all!

For my third and final attempt I decided to just bake one giant cookie in my oven and then roll it into a cone the second it was done baking, before it could harden. Well, I guess sometimes the simplest idea is the best, because this worked like a charm. To roll mine I used the cone-form that came along with my waffle cone maker, but any cone-shaped object should work just as well. Then, once the cookie cone cooled and hardened it was all set to eat!

Now, my Chocolate Chip Cookie Cone was awesome on its own, but do you know what really took it to the next level? The chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream that I filled it with! I’m not normally a huge dessert fan, but this cookie cone was delicious and was ten times better than any other ice cream cone I’ve ever eaten. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I think I might need to try making an Elvis Cookie cone next!

Now that April Fool’s Day is over with we can finally get back to business! I ate a LOT of Reuben sandwiches on and leading up to Saint Patrick’s Day this year. After it was over I was actually pretty sick of them. The problem though is that I still had half a loaf rye bread sitting at home on my counter and some Swiss cheese, Thousand Island dressing and sauerkraut in my refrigerator.

Now, I’ve never been one to waste food, so I wasn’t just going to throw all those leftovers away. Instead, I swapped out the corned beef that you normally find in Reuben sandwiches with the one thing that I always have on hand — bacon!

As I recently figured out when I used bacon instead of tortilla chips while making nachos, bacon makes a great substitute for pretty much anything, and with this Reuben it was no different! Yeah, I know, I could have used turkey instead of corned beef like some restaurants do, but I didn’t have any of that on hand either. Plus, for as much as I like turkey if the choice is there between that and bacon I’m going to pick bacon pretty much every single time.

Overall my Bacon Reuben was pretty amazing. I wouldn’t necessarily choose it over a traditional Reuben in most cases, but when you’re sick of corned beef it’s clearly the next best thing.