{"id":35464,"date":"2020-12-23T05:28:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T10:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=35464"},"modified":"2020-12-23T05:28:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T10:28:04","slug":"holiday-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/12\/23\/holiday-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6237\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/01\/17\/apple-cake\/food-header-1-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Food-Header-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6237\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35465\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/12\/23\/holiday-cookies\/sprinklelemon\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SprinkleLemon.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SprinkleLemon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SprinkleLemon.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35465\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SprinkleLemon.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SprinkleLemon.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SprinkleLemon.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been stockpiling cookie dough in my freezer to wait for a quiet day to bake. That day was yesterday &#8211; rough estimate, I baked about fifteen dozen cookies! One of my favorites are the sprinkle cookies, they&#8217;re like the ones you get in an Italian bakery &#8211; only better. There&#8217;s lots of vanilla extract and lemon zest in the dough, and who doesn&#8217;t love a cookie with sprinkles? You can get the recipe <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/12\/10\/sprinkle-cookies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Joe&#8217;s favorite are the lemon butter cookies which I make just for him. They&#8217;re soft, made with lemon juice, lemon zest, cream cheese, and rolled in confectioners sugar. You can get that recipe <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/03\/07\/lemon-butter-cookies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Happy baking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been stockpiling cookie dough in my freezer to wait for a quiet day to bake. That day was yesterday &#8211; rough estimate, I baked about fifteen dozen cookies! One of my favorites are the sprinkle cookies, they&#8217;re like the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/12\/23\/holiday-cookies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[176,1238,4],"tags":[97,5027,1071,2947,4586,4587],"class_list":["post-35464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-lovin-from-the-oven","category-news","tag-baking","tag-cookie-box","tag-cookies","tag-holiday-baking","tag-lemon-butter-cookies","tag-sprinkle-cookies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9e0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15076,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/12\/10\/sprinkle-cookies\/","url_meta":{"origin":35464,"position":0},"title":"Sprinkle Cookies","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"December 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm running a couple of cookie recipes this week, as I'm stockpiling dough in my freezer to bake later. This one came from Saveur - it's a cookie similar to the ones they sell in the Italian bakeries in my neighborhood - but better! When I initially read through the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Holiday&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Holiday","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/holiday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SprinkleCookies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SprinkleCookies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SprinkleCookies.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24743,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/12\/04\/its-national-cookie-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":35464,"position":1},"title":"It&#8217;s National Cookie Day!","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"December 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"To celebrate National Cookie Day, I'm posting the links to three of my favorite cookies. I'll be spending some time in my kitchen this afternoon making a few batches of dough for the freezer to bake later as Christmas approaches. Happy National Cookie Day! http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/03\/13\/caramel-cappuccino-cookies-the-best-cookies-in-the-world\/ http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/12\/10\/sprinkle-cookies\/ http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/03\/07\/lemon-butter-cookies\/ \u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Holiday&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Holiday","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/holiday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/LemonCookies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/LemonCookies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/LemonCookies.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":36988,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/12\/20\/holiday-cookie-roundup\/","url_meta":{"origin":35464,"position":2},"title":"Holiday Cookie Roundup","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"December 20, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I was eleven and armed with a sugar cookie recipe cut from the pages of my mom's Woman's Day magazine - that's where my love of holiday baking began. I've since branched out to drop cookies, bars, and meringues. Here are nine of my favorites, the recipes are behind the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Holiday&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Holiday","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/holiday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/NineCookies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/NineCookies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/NineCookies.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15133,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/12\/18\/sugar-cookies\/","url_meta":{"origin":35464,"position":3},"title":"Sugar Cookies","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"December 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This has been my go-to recipe for sugar cookies since I was a teen. I think I clipped it out of one of my mom's magazines and refined it over the years, increasing the amount of vanilla and adding lemon zest. These cookies will figure prominently in my holiday sweet\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lovin' from the Oven&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lovin' from the Oven","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/lovin-from-the-oven\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SugarCookies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SugarCookies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SugarCookies.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":33120,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/12\/18\/let-the-baking-begin\/","url_meta":{"origin":35464,"position":4},"title":"Let the Baking Begin!","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"December 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I took out some of the cookie dough I had squirreled away in the freezer to bake this afternoon. First up, are these Lemon Butter Cookies, click on the link for the recipe! Happy baking!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Food&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Food","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/food\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Baking-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Baking-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Baking-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":40220,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/03\/13\/lemon-oatmeal-cookies\/","url_meta":{"origin":35464,"position":5},"title":"Lemon Oatmeal Cookies","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"March 13, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"It's no secret I love all things lemon, so I was intrigued when I found a recipe for lemon cookies that uses oats as an ingredient. They are crisp around the edges, soft in the middle and have a wonderful texture! 1 cup butter, softened 2 cups granulated sugar 2\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lovin' from the Oven&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lovin' from the Oven","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/lovin-from-the-oven\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/LemonCookies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/LemonCookies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/LemonCookies.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}