{"id":13990,"date":"2020-12-06T23:04:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T22:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13990"},"modified":"2024-06-11T21:39:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T20:39:13","slug":"daily_2153_-_more_gingerbread_cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/12\/06\/daily_2153_-_more_gingerbread_cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2153 &#8211; more gingerbread cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2153_gingerbread_cookies_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThis is what happens to gingerbread cookies in a household full of people who like order. They get sorted by shape, and stacked. Small hearts, large hearts, left-facing pigs, right-facing pigs, and numerous piles of small stars and circles made from the scraps of dough between the larger cookies.<\/p>\n<p>This looked satisfying but later turned out to be not a very good idea. At least not when the cookies are stacked when they are still warm. Because this way the steam can&#8217;t evaporate and the cookies end up soft rather than crisp. Unfortunately we only discovered this when we had finished decorating. I put the undecorated ones back in the oven to dry them out, but you can&#8217;t heat the decorated ones because the icing goes all runny. So we will be eating soft gingerbread cookies this year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2153_gingerbread_cookies_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nIngrid is a skilled decorator and makes the most fancy ones, like the Christmas trees here. Adrian likes lots of icing on his, and preferably in colour, not in white.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2153_gingerbread_cookies_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nI like understated decorations, mostly in white.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2153_gingerbread_cookies_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nOne Christmas we got a truck-shaped cookie cutter from Mathem (the online grocery store). I guess we are valued customers or something. It&#8217;s one of Adrian&#8217;s favourites, and Ingrid made an actual Mathem truck cookie for him.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2153_gingerbread_cookies_5.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThis is Adrian&#8217;s photo of the cookies he liked best: a Santa couple, a very Grinchy Grinch, and a donut with extra everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens to gingerbread cookies in a household full of people who like order. They get sorted by shape, and stacked. Small hearts, large hearts, left-facing pigs, right-facing pigs, and numerous piles of small stars and circles made from the scraps of dough between the larger cookies. This looked satisfying but later turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[790,791,767,18,745,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","category-christmas","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13990"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13995,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13990\/revisions\/13995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}