{"id":49,"date":"2017-10-08T14:59:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T14:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/mexican-wedding-cakes\/"},"modified":"2017-10-08T14:59:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T14:59:58","slug":"mexican-wedding-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/mexican-wedding-cakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Wedding Cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/\/media\/users\/robin\/IMG_0993.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mexican Wedding Cakes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/div>\n<p>These are my favorite Christmas cookie.  They don&#8217;t ship as well as some of the others but I love them so my cookie recipients get a ziplock of crumbs every year. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>2 cups whole pecans or walnuts, 1 cup chopped fine, one cup ground until the texture of coarse cornmeal<br \/>\n2 cups flour<br \/>\n.75 tsp salt<br \/>\n16 Tbs (8 oz) softened unsalted butter<br \/>\n.33 cup superfine sugar<br \/>\n1.5 tsp vanilla<br \/>\npowdered sugar for rolling cookies<\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 325F<\/p>\n<p>Mix nuts, flour, and salt, set aside.<\/p>\n<p>Beat butter and sugar on medium until light and creamy, about 1.5 minutes.  Beat in vanilla. Add flour mixture and bat at low speed until dough just comes together. Working with one tablespoon (I use a #70 disher) at a time, form dough into rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Bake 17 to 19 minutes until the tops are pale golden<\/p>\n<p>Once cool, roll in confectioners&#8217; sugar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are my favorite Christmas cookie. They don&#8217;t ship as well as some of the others but I love them so my cookie recipients get a ziplock of crumbs every year. \ud83d\ude42 2 cups whole pecans or walnuts, 1 cup chopped fine, one cup ground until the texture of coarse cornmeal 2 cups flour .75 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/mexican-wedding-cakes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mexican Wedding Cakes&#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-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}