{"id":17472,"date":"2019-03-27T17:16:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T00:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=17472"},"modified":"2019-07-23T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T20:28:42","slug":"x-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/x-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"X Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This recipe is based on one seen on <em>Baking with Julia<\/em>.<br \/>\nYou can also shape this into hearts (see note at the bottom.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 C figs<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 C golden raisins<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 C candied orange or lemon peel<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 C almonds &#8211; crushed and toasted<\/li>\n<li>2 oz semi sweet chocolate<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp grated ginger<\/li>\n<li>1\/3 C apricot jam<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp CinnaSugar\u00ae<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 C dark rum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Combine the above ingredients, and then refrigerate 1 hour.<\/li>\n<li>Make one batch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/simple-pastry-dough\/\">Simple Pastry Dough<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Process as indicated by the recipe, and the next day roll the dough into a long cylinder.<\/li>\n<li>Cut it in half until you have 16 pieces.<\/li>\n<li>Roll the figs into a cylinder as well, and cut them into 16 pieces.<\/li>\n<li>Roll each piece of dough, on a floured surface, into a flat piece about 12 inches by 3 inches.<\/li>\n<li>Roll a piece of filling to the same length, and position in the center of the dough.<\/li>\n<li>Brush one edge with egg wash.<\/li>\n<li>Wrap the dough around each filling.<\/li>\n<li>Roll to secure.<\/li>\n<li>Trim the tips, then cut in half, then in half again &#8211; so you will end up with four pieces.<\/li>\n<li>(Plan to cook the tips for a treat for the chef.)<\/li>\n<li>Cut a slit lengthwise about 1 inch into each end, then split the halves apart creating an X &#8211; and put on a baking sheet.<\/li>\n<li>Bake all of them at 350\u00ba for 15-20 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Store in a tight container for up to a month.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To make heart cookies, at Step 13 cut a slit lengthwise leaving 1\/2 inch at the end.\u00a0 Shape the cookies into a heart, rather than an X<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recipe is based on one seen on Baking with Julia. You can also shape this into hearts (see note at the bottom.) 2 C figs 1\/4 C golden raisins 1\/4 C candied orange or lemon peel 1\/2 C almonds &#8211; crushed and toasted 2 oz semi sweet chocolate 1\/2 tsp grated ginger 1\/3 C &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/x-cookies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;X Cookies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17476,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472\/revisions\/17476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}