{"id":2278,"date":"2010-11-30T16:01:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2010-11-30T16:10:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:10:14","slug":"wimpy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wimpy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimpy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bagged baking early last night. I chocolate-glazed the Molly Wizenberg<\/a> dried fruit balls, and I think they’re going to be really good this year; I used more prunes than figs, and Grand Marnier<\/em>, and really good chocolate. I made the fruit cake gems, and I think I bought 1\/4 inch larger bon bon cups, 1.25 in., instead of just 1, to bake them in, so they are not so cute and small as last year. I had a vat of fruitcake batter, ending up with 12 dozen larger gems, that packed into 2 full 5-qt. buckets this morning. Over abundance was a theme of the night – I had softened enough butter to go with 8 cups of flour to make the Mexican wedding cookies, and after I started mixing them – I got as far creaming the butter & sugar – I realized that my mixer doesn’t hold 8 cups of flour … and four cups of butter and 1 1\/3 cups of sugar and 2 cups of ground pecans … I had to eyeball half the butter\/sugar mixture, transfer it to another bowl, mix two half batches, and then finally combine them – had to mix with my hands – in one of my biggest bowls. So I thought I should knock off early for the night, before I did something stupid. On a happier note, the almond cinnamon stars that are new this year are really nice, and gluten- and dairy-free. I hope the pffernuse, also new this year, that I mixed up last night, will bake up as well.<\/p>\n

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Fruit & nut balls<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fruit Cake Gems<\/p><\/div>\n

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Not my shot but my stars are similar<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bagged baking early last night. I chocolate-glazed the Molly Wizenberg dried fruit balls, and I think they’re going to be really good this year; I used more prunes than figs, and Grand Marnier, and really good chocolate. I made the fruit cake gems, and I think I bought 1\/4 inch larger bon bon cups, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,168],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cookie-season","tag-cookies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}