{"id":13053,"date":"2016-12-23T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=13053"},"modified":"2016-12-23T09:32:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T14:32:21","slug":"christmas-cookies-2016-bar-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/13053","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cookies 2016: Bar Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from brownies, I think the only time I made bar cookies is at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Probably because the recipes make entirely too many cookies, and I either eat them until I&#8217;m sick, or they go to waste (or Michael eats too many).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2h6UFDI\">Christmas Cookies<\/a><\/em> by Oxmoor House<\/p>\n<p>Cranberry-Caramel Bars<\/p>\n<p>I follow this recipe only vaguely&#8211;primarily I just drizzle the caramel over the shortbread and cranberries, and then sprinkle the other bits on top.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20161222_Christmas_Cookies_002\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/31694039731\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c4.staticflickr.com\/1\/687\/31694039731_5bd4fb9d93_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20161222_Christmas_Cookies_002\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hGMbUy\">Fine Cooking Cookies: 200 Favorite Recipes for Cookies, Brownies, Bars &amp; More<\/a><\/em> by the Editors of Fine Cooking<\/p>\n<p>Cranberry Streusel Shortbread Bars<\/p>\n<p>This is my first year making these, and I think they need some work as far as presentation. The dough is gloopy like a drop cookie, rather than sandy like a shortbread cookie. But if they taste good, I&#8217;m willing to tweak the recipe.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20161222_Christmas_Cookies_004\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/31694041801\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/1\/339\/31694041801_fa89be0b9c_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20161222_Christmas_Cookies_004\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gu6F1I\">Simply Sensational Cookies<\/a><\/em> by Nancy Baggett<\/p>\n<p>Praline-Pecan-Coconut Bars<\/p>\n<p>OMG. I love these so much. I like to trim the edges off because it makes the bars neater, the cookies fit back in the pan better once sliced, and because then I have to eat those edges, since they won&#8217;t fit into the pan neatly.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20161222_Christmas_Cookies_011\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/31664064812\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c5.staticflickr.com\/1\/538\/31664064812_9f84d3f807_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20161222_Christmas_Cookies_011\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from brownies, I think the only time I made bar cookies is at Christmas. Probably because the recipes make entirely too many cookies, and I either eat them until I&#8217;m sick, or they go to waste (or Michael eats too many). &nbsp; Christmas Cookies by Oxmoor House Cranberry-Caramel Bars I follow this recipe only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading","category-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3ox","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}