{"id":502,"date":"2007-12-10T15:07:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T20:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=502"},"modified":"2007-12-10T15:07:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T20:07:27","slug":"Christmas Cookies - Candy Cane Cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cookies – Candy Cane Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I wanted to try out these cute candy cane cookies<\/a> from the FamilyFun.com<\/a> website.  But it really turned out to be a big comedy of errors, times two!  Before I started, I realized I didn’t have peppermint extract, so my father-in-law rescued me by picking some up and bringing it over.  Then I decided since the recipe ONLY made 25 cookies, I kind of wanted more, since I’m making and freezing for a Christmas party we’re having on December 21st.  So I doubled the recipe.  But   Then after I’d already STARTED the dough, I realized I only had neon food coloring!  And in pink, purple, bright green and blue!  So we were going to have green and white candy canes.  <\/p>\n

I gave Analise her chunk of dough, a pan and sprinkles and let her at it.  Josiah, too, got some dough, and he was thrilled, because he’s been trying to eat PlayDoh for the last couple weeks.  This was perfect, and between dough and sprinkles, he was entertained in his high chair for nearly 2 hours!  I started making my candy canes, pinching off a little ball, rolling it out, and then twisting them together.  GOODNESS – it was time consuming.  A pan of 12 took me like 20 minutes, and I’d barely dented the dough.  I was NOT in the mood to make 50 candy canes. <\/p>\n

So I decided to roll some dough out and make cutout cookies.  This was WAY more work than I really wanted to do, but since we were already making a mess, I figured I’d finish things up \ud83d\ude42  So we made bells and Christmas trees and stars with sprinkles.  The candy canes were disappointing to me, as they looked pretty miserable compared to the cute picture above from the website.  They tasted ok, but in the end, I’d left out the peppermint, because I was afraid Analise wouldn’t like it.  So they were REALLY buttery.  The cutout cookies were crisper than I liked, and we’re adding a little frosting to liven them up.  After all that, I haven’t even frozen any because I wasn’t that impressed!  <\/p>\n

On to our next cookie adventure later this week…<\/p>\n

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I wanted to try out these cute candy cane cookies from the FamilyFun.com website.  But it really turned out to be a big comedy of errors, times two!  Before I started, I realized I didn’t have peppermint extract, so my father-in-law rescued me by picking some up and bringing it over.  Then I decided since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-86","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}