{"id":48,"date":"2017-10-08T14:59:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T14:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/caramel-pecan-bars\/"},"modified":"2017-10-08T14:59:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T14:59:58","slug":"caramel-pecan-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/caramel-pecan-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Caramel Pecan Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/\/media\/users\/robin\/IMG_0998.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"Caramel pecan bars\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Another favorite Christmas cookie.  This recipe leaves a lot of edge trimmings which are unsuitable for company and must be disposed of&#8230;somehow.<\/p>\n<p>1 recipe <a href=\"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/htsrv\/trackback.php?tb_id=64\">Sugar Cookie dough<\/a><br \/>\n12.5 oz (1.75 c.) sugar<br \/>\n1.5 oz (2 Tbs) corn syrup<br \/>\n.75 c water<br \/>\n7 oz. (14 Tbs) unsalted butter<br \/>\n8.5 oz (0.75) cup honey<br \/>\n1 cup heavy cream<br \/>\n17 oz. toasted pecans<\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 350F<\/p>\n<p>Roll out dough, line half sheet pan, chill until firm.  Bake with foil &amp; pie weights 20 min., remove foil &amp; weights, bake an additional 10 minutes until completely set. Cool completely.<\/p>\n<p>In a large saucepan, combine sugar, corn syrup, and water and bring to a boil. Cook until the mixture becomes amber, 350F, remove from heat.  Carefully add butter and honey, return to heat, stir until dissolved. Bring the mixture back to a boil and carefully add cream. Boil the mixture until it reaches 250F. Quickly combine nuts &amp; caramel, spread in cookie crust. Bake 20 min. or until the topping begins to bubble.<\/p>\n<p>Once cool, cut by turning upside down onto cutting board, scoring through the crust, then cutting through the caramel with a chef&#8217;s knife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another favorite Christmas cookie. This recipe leaves a lot of edge trimmings which are unsuitable for company and must be disposed of&#8230;somehow. 1 recipe Sugar Cookie dough 12.5 oz (1.75 c.) sugar 1.5 oz (2 Tbs) corn syrup .75 c water 7 oz. (14 Tbs) unsalted butter 8.5 oz (0.75) cup honey 1 cup heavy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/caramel-pecan-bars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Caramel Pecan Bars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}