{"id":773,"date":"2010-12-27T18:40:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T18:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2010-12-28T00:11:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T00:11:34","slug":"melting-snowmen-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Melting snowmen cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The snow outside is finally melting. This inspired me to make some melting snowmen cookies. Since I was talking to a Calvin and Hobbes fan recently, they are &#8220;prophets of doom&#8221; themed. First step: cookie dough. Sugar, margarine, flour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-774\" title=\"Dough\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chill in fridge till a bit more solid and slice-able.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-775\" title=\"Chilled dough\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cut into slices (I was attempting some non-round cookies), and cook in the oven for about 12 minutes. Don&#8217;t put them as close together as I did here because they will merge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-776\" title=\"Cookie tray\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_3.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I forgot to take photos for a bit, but it is pretty simple. Make some icing. Make a separate tiny ball of icing with orange food colouring (3 drops yellow + 1 drop red). Turn the orange icing into small cone shapes in your fingers. Cover a cookie with icing apart from an area where you place two stacked white marshmallows. Place in microwave for about 12-15 seconds until the marshmallows start melting. Take out, dip the flat end of the orange cone in the now melty icing and attach to the head.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-777\" title=\"With icing\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_4.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take a tiny bit of left over icing and add a few drops of black colouring. Use a cocktail stick to twirl up a ball and deposit it for the eyes and buttons. For the hands, I drew then by dipping the stick into the colouring. In the background you can see the originals from the comic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-779\" title=\"&lt;SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA&gt;\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_6-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_6-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_6.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Add some pieces of paper taped to cocktail sticks and there you go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-780\" title=\"&lt;SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA&gt;\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_7-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_7-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cookies_7.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy winter thaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The snow outside is finally melting. This inspired me to make some melting snowmen cookies. Since I was talking to a Calvin and Hobbes fan recently, they are &#8220;prophets of doom&#8221; themed. First step: cookie dough. Sugar, margarine, flour. Chill in fridge till a bit more solid and slice-able. Cut into slices (I was attempting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}