{"id":18632,"date":"2010-12-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/cooks\/?p=67"},"modified":"2010-12-09T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T15:00:00","slug":"hidden-mint-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/hidden-mint-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Mint Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hrecipe\">\n<p class=\"summary\">\n<em>I first saw these cookies on <\/em>Paula&#8217;s Home Cooking<em> with Paula Deen. They&#8217;re so simple that once hear the recipe once, you&#8217;re ready to go. Their secret is that they use all pre-made ingredients. The work is all assembly and waiting for the yummy cookies to emerge from the oven! Hidden Mint Cookies are the ninth <em>of my 25 Cookies of Christmas<\/em>.  <\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ingredients\">\n<h4>Ingredients<\/h4>\n<p><em>Cookies<\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ingredients\">\n<li>1 roll of refrigerated sugar cookie dough<\/li>\n<li>15 mint cookies (e.g., Girl Scout Thin Mints or Keebler Grasshoppers) <\/li>\n<li>(optional) Chopped nuts for topping <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instructions\">\n<h4>Directions<\/h4>\n<ol class=\"instructions\">\n<li> Preheat oven to 375&deg;F.<\/li>\n<li>Grease  cookie sheets. <\/li>\n<li>Slice sugar cookie dough into 30 &frac14;&#8221; slices. <\/li>\n<li>Layer 15 slices on the prepared cookie sheet.<\/li>\n<li>Top each slice with a mint cookie.<\/li>\n<li>Cover the mint cookie with another sugar cookie (so you essentially have a sandwich).<\/li>\n<li>Press the edges of the sugar cookies together on each sandwich so that the mint cookie is sealed inside.<\/li>\n<li>Sprinkle tops of cookies with chopped nuts, if desired. <\/li>\n<li>Bake for 12 minutes, or until edges are golden. Be sure not to overcook (as it dries out the hidden mint cookie).<\/li>\n<li>Allow cookies to cool completely. Store in a tightly covered container. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"variations\">\n<a name=\"variations\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Variations<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"variations\">\n<li>These cookies are a variation on the candy-stuffed cookies. If you don&#8217;t like the taste of mint cookies, substitute a snack-sized candy bar for the mint cookies.<\/li>\n<li>If the sugar cookie dough is too soft to slice easily, put the roll in the freezer for 20 &#8211;30 minutes before slicing.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p class=\"duration\"><span class=\"hrlabel\">Time Required: <\/span><span class=\"hritem\">20  minutes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p class=\"yield\"><span class=\"hrlabel\">Servings: <\/span><span class=\"hritem\">15 cookies <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw these cookies on Paula&#8217;s Home Cooking with Paula Deen. They&#8217;re so simple that once hear the recipe once, you&#8217;re ready to go. Their secret is that they use all pre-made ingredients. The work is all assembly and waiting for the yummy cookies to emerge from the oven! Hidden Mint Cookies are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cookies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-4Qw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}