{"id":18376,"date":"2022-11-14T07:26:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T12:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=18376"},"modified":"2022-11-14T07:26:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T12:26:55","slug":"oatmeal-pecan-raisin-sandwich-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=18376","title":{"rendered":"Oatmeal Pecan Raisin Sandwich Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Click on any image to view it in high resolution.)<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1784-use-edited-1440-sq-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1784-use-edited-1440-sq-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1784-use-edited-1440-sq-3.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1784-use-edited-1440-sq-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1784-use-edited-1440-sq-3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1784-use-edited-1440-sq-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_1784-use-edited-1440-sq-3-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When developing a recipe, I often set out by studying a collection of existing recipes in order to generate an amalgam of sorts before I forge ahead in my own deviant direction.<\/p>\n<p>Since it\u2019s time to start thinking about Christmas cookies (I lie \u2013 it\u2019s always time to think about Christmas cookies) and because I had too much oatmeal in the house (long story), a spin on oatmeal pecan raisin cookies seemed like a solid idea.<\/p>\n<p>So I developed my own bespoke recipe \u2013 which happily turned out to be first-rate \u2013 but since I\u2019m a lily-gilder by nature I decided to elevate it by sandwiching cannoli filling between cookie pairs.<\/p>\n<p>If I do say so myself, I may very well have come up with another entry for the holiday repertoire!<\/p>\n<p>(I would have taken a better photo, but all the cookies mysteriously disappeared before I had the chance. Elves maybe?)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas! Almost? Read on&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=18376\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,31,21],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-18376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-home-cookin","category-sweets","tag-american"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18376"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18389,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376\/revisions\/18389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}