{"id":5039,"date":"2011-11-04T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/2011\/11\/baking-and-decorating-in-chincoteague\/"},"modified":"2011-11-04T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T20:17:00","slug":"baking-and-decorating-in-chincoteague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=5039","title":{"rendered":"Baking and Decorating in Chincoteague!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oatmeal and apricot cookies!<\/p>\n

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Mantle piece in dining room.<\/p>\n

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Christmas tree!<\/p>\n

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The tree is decorated JUST for Meredith!  The camel, elephants, and kangaroo<\/p>\n

all represent her travels-  (Iraq, Thailand, Australia).  The mermaids, lighthouses,<\/p>\n

firetrucks,seahorses and keys represent her house on Chincoteague.  The teapot and <\/p>\n

cups on a tray- her preferred hot drink- and it all speaks of the sailor and places she has<\/p>\n

been and hopes to go.  The pink flamingo is just to remind her how she needs to <\/p>\n

have a sense of humor- (she hates pink, hates flamingoes, and hates the big picture<\/p>\n

of a huge pink flamingo that graced the hallway of her house when she bought it!)<\/p>\n

And, just in case you thought that one picture of cookies doesn\u2019t count for much <\/p>\n

baking\u2026..<\/p>\n

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-here\u2019s a loaf of Italian bread I made yesterday!<\/p>\n

Recipe for cookies-<\/p>\n

1 stick butter<\/p>\n

3\/4 cup of white sugar<\/p>\n

3\/4 cup brown sugar<\/p>\n

1 egg<\/p>\n

1 tsp vanilla<\/p>\n

1 heaping cup AP flour<\/p>\n

1 cup oatmeal<\/p>\n

1\/2 tsp baking powder<\/p>\n

1\/2 tsp baking soda<\/p>\n

pinch of salt<\/p>\n

apricot and pecan paste*<\/p>\n

Mix together the first five ingredients until smooth and creamy.<\/p>\n

Measure all the dry ingredients into a bowl and stir, then add to<\/p>\n

butter and sugar mixture.  Take a pinch of the apricot and pecan paste<\/p>\n

and wrap cookie dough around it and place on parchment papered <\/p>\n

baking pan, about 3 inches apart.<\/p>\n

Bake at 350 F for 8-10 minutes, until golden brown.<\/p>\n

Apricot and pecan paste<\/p>\n

1 1\/2 cups dried apricots<\/p>\n

1 cup chopped pecans<\/p>\n

2 to 3 TBS white pear basalmic vinegar<\/p>\n

1\/2 cup honey<\/p>\n

Put all ingredients into food processor and <\/p>\n

run until everything is a paste.  Place in loaf pan lined with<\/p>\n

parchment paper and cover top with another sheet of paper,<\/p>\n

weigh down top to compress.<\/p>\n

(See how Celia at Fig jam and Lime Cordial, makes a variation of <\/p>\n

this in a fig and walnut paste- or an almond and apricot version.<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oatmeal and apricot cookies! Mantle piece in dining room. Christmas tree! The tree is decorated JUST for Meredith!  The camel, elephants, and kangaroo all represent her travels-  (Iraq, Thailand, Australia).  The mermaids, lighthouses, firetrucks,seahorses and keys represent her house on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bread","category-family","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}