{"id":272,"date":"2008-12-24T22:09:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T03:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2008-12-24T22:09:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T03:09:14","slug":"adventures-in-cookieland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Cookieland"},"content":{"rendered":"

That sounds like the title of a truly awful children’s book, doesn’t it? Nothing horrible though, I promise, though the quantity of cookies I baked today is<\/i> truly ridiculous. I used all the flour, all the eggs, all the vanilla, and enough butter to keep a whole herd of cows occupied. <\/p>\n

Before I forget, though: my contribution to the refrigerator magnet meme:<\/p>\n

\"fridge<\/p>\n

Don’t worry – I was carefully supervised during this project by an observer outside the kitchen window, sometimes by a whole flock<\/i> of inspectors.<\/p>\n

\"cardinal\"<\/p>\n

I followed the usual steps while baking: first, assemble the ingredients.<\/p>\n

\"cookie<\/p>\n

I have good chocolate, but why exactly do I need three<\/i> bottles of molasses?<\/p>\n

I went with the “baking in parallel” approach, rather than “baking in series”. <\/p>\n

\"cookie<\/p>\n

I set up four bowls at once, and did each step for all four bowls at a time.<\/p>\n

There were gingersnaps, crunchy on the edges and chewy in the middle, and much<\/i> beloved of Morgan.<\/p>\n

\"cookie<\/p>\n

Peanut butter, by Nick’s request, and inspiring much begging from the dog.<\/p>\n

\"cookie<\/p>\n

Pinwheels, one of my favorites.<\/p>\n

\"cookie<\/p>\n

And of course, decorated sugar cookies, a Christmas staple. Usually, they aren’t decorated with dinosaurs, but that may be an oversight by the rest<\/i> of the world.<\/p>\n

\"cookie<\/p>\n

\"cookie<\/p>\n

\"cookie<\/p>\n

Three of the recipes were standard cookbook fare, but here’s the pinwheel recipe, copied from one of my mother’s cookbooks onto a now-tattered and butter-spotted slip of yellow paper.<\/p>\n

Pinwheels
\n1\/2 c butter, softened
\n3\/4 c sugar
\n2 tsp vanilla
\n1 egg
\n1 3\/4 c flour
\n1\/2 tsp baking soda
\n1\/2 tsp salt
\n1 oz unsweetened baking chocolate, melted<\/p>\n

The usual cookie thing: cream butter and sugar; beat in vanilla and egg; gradually add combined dry ingredients.
\nHere’s the fun part: divide dough in half. Add melted chocolate to half, and mix firmly. Chill.
\nDivide the cold dough into quarters. Roll out a rectangle of chocolate, and another of vanilla. Stack them, and roll jellyroll-fashion (longways). Slice into rounds.
\nBake at 375F for 8-10 minutes.<\/p>\n

If you are feeling creative, you can do many sorts of other things with the dough. I’ve done checkerboards, and though I’ve never tried it millefiori seems quite possible.<\/p>\n

Warning: the chocolate part is the best cookie dough ever<\/i>. <\/p>\n

It looks like this in progress.<\/p>\n

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That sounds like the title of a truly awful children’s book, doesn’t it? Nothing horrible though, I promise, though the quantity of cookies I baked today is truly ridiculous. I used all the flour, all the eggs, all the vanilla, and enough butter to keep a whole herd of cows occupied. Before I forget, though: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}