{"id":1435,"date":"2015-02-03T05:44:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T12:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2016-01-25T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:50:40","slug":"candy-cane-sugar-cookie-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/candy-cane-sugar-cookie-bars.html","title":{"rendered":"Candy Cane Sugar Cookie Bars \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"Section3\" dir=\"LTR\"><em>These are really pretty cookies.<\/em><\/div>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><b>Cookie Ingredients:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 c butter<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>\u00be c powdered sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 egg yolks<\/li>\n<li>2 1\/4 c flour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><b>Cookie Directions:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat the oven to 350\u00b0.<\/li>\n<li>Grease a 9\u00d713 pan.<\/li>\n<li>In the bowl of a standing mixer, cream together the butter, salt and sugar.<\/li>\n<li>Add the yolks and mix well.<\/li>\n<li>Add the flour and mix until you have a uniform dough.<\/li>\n<li>Using your fingers, press the dough evenly across the bottom of the pan.<\/li>\n<li>Bake the dough for 18 minutes at 350\u00b0, until light golden.<\/li>\n<li>Remove from oven and let cool.<\/li>\n<li>After cookies cool, prepare frosting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><b>Peppermint Frosting Ingredients:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00bd c butter<\/li>\n<li>3 c powdered sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/3c milk<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd tsp peppermint extract<\/li>\n<li>2 drops red food coloring<\/li>\n<li>5 candy canes, crushed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><b>Frosting Directions:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Combine butter and sugar in the bowl of a standing mixer until smooth.<\/li>\n<li>Mix milk, food coloring and peppermint.<\/li>\n<li>Add to butter\/sugar in mixer and mix until fluffy<\/li>\n<li>Transfer all of the frosting to the cooled cookie dough and spread evenly.<\/li>\n<li>Immediately sprinkle with the crushed candy canes and chill.<\/li>\n<li>Cut 6 x 10 to make 60 pieces.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><b>Serves: <\/b>makes 60 bars<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><b>Source: <\/b>heathercristo.com<\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are really pretty cookies. Cookie Ingredients: 1 c butter \u00bd tsp salt \u00be c powdered sugar 2 egg yolks 2 1\/4 c flour Cookie Directions: Preheat the oven to 350\u00b0. Grease a 9\u00d713 pan. In the bowl of a standing mixer, cream together the butter, salt and sugar. Add the yolks and mix well. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/candy-cane-sugar-cookie-bars.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Candy Cane Sugar Cookie Bars \u00a0&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweets-cookies","tag-vpwl-dec-2013"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}