{"id":3739,"date":"2008-12-23T19:28:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T00:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2008-12-23T22:01:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T03:01:27","slug":"tasty-tuesday-holiday-baking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/3739","title":{"rendered":"Tasty Tuesday: Holiday Baking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow the holidays always surprise me with how quickly they arrive. Luckily, the only thing I have to do before Christmas is bake.<\/p>\n<p>And bake I have. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve made so far:<\/p>\n<p>Peanut Butter Blossoms<br \/>\nLemon Shortbread Coins, from <em>The Essential Baker<\/em> by Carole Bloom<br \/>\nSpiced Sugar Coins, from <em>The Essential Baker<\/em> by Carole Bloom<br \/>\nHazelnut-Chocolate Chip Cookies, from <em>The All-American Dessert Book<\/em> by Nancy Baggett (modified)<br \/>\nLemon Snowflake Cookies, from <em>The All-American Dessert Book<\/em> by Nancy Baggett (these were a mess to make)<br \/>\nPumpkin Whoopie Pies, from <em>The All-American Dessert Book<\/em> by Nancy Baggett<br \/>\nKing Arthur&#8217;s Special Roll-Out Sugar Cookies, from <em>The King Arthur Flour Cookie Book<\/em><br \/>\nSour Cream Nutmeg Sugar Cookies, from <em>Christmas Cookies<\/em><br \/>\nCranberry-Caramel Bars, from <em>Christmas Cookies<\/em> (modified)<br \/>\nLemon Cornmeal Shortbread Bars, from <em>The Best of Fine Cooking: Cookies<\/em><br \/>\nGiant Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies, from <em>The Best of Fine Cooking: Cookies<\/em> (modified to be not giant)<br \/>\nPeanut Butter &#038; Chocolate Shortbread Bars, from <em>The Best of Fine Cooking: Cookies<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I still need to decorate the sugar cookies and make the pumpkin and sweet potato pies, and Michael is still planning on making peanut butter fudge.<\/p>\n<p>Now before you think I&#8217;ve completely lost my mind, I did give cookies to my co-workers for Christmas, and will give them to some others tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>AND I didn&#8217;t bake up the full recipes for some of the cookies. So I&#8217;ve got frozen dough I can bake at any time. Yum!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/3132186252\/\" title=\"Lemon Snowflake Cookies by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3094\/3132186252_a5038ff4fb.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Lemon Snowflake Cookies\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Lemon Snowflake Cookies<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/3132483136\/\" title=\"Lemon_Coins by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3094\/3132483136_2ff2ae3a62.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Lemon_Coins\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Lemon Coins<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/3131658611\/\" title=\"Oatmeal_Cranberry by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3112\/3131658611_1866df7ffb.jpg?resize=500%2C325\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" alt=\"Oatmeal_Cranberry\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies (with coconut, pecans, and white &#8220;chocolate&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/3132488616\/\" title=\"Sugar_Cookies by Random Michelle K, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3131\/3132488616_d2cdf6ce56.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Sugar_Cookies\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Sugar Cookies<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow the holidays always surprise me with how quickly they arrive. Luckily, the only thing I have to do before Christmas is bake. And bake I have. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve made so far: Peanut Butter Blossoms Lemon Shortbread Coins, from The Essential Baker by Carole Bloom Spiced Sugar Coins, from The Essential Baker by Carole [&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":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[311,330],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-photos","tag-baking","tag-christmas-cookies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-Yj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","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=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}