{"id":650,"date":"2010-01-13T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=650"},"modified":"2010-01-13T12:04:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T18:04:51","slug":"seven-layer-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Seven-Layer Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christmas Cookie Tray<\/p>\n

(I forgot to take a photo of the Seven-Layer Cookies, alone, so I only have them with the other cookies on a tray that I prepared for Christmas Eve at my mother-in-law’s, but you can still see how pretty these are.\u00a0 The photo on epicurious<\/a> is even better.)<\/p>\n

from bottom to top:<\/p>\n

Seven-Layer Cookies<\/a><\/p>\n

Swedish Spice Cookies<\/a><\/p>\n

Orange Slice Cookies<\/a><\/p>\n

My Grandmother’s Fudge<\/a><\/p>\n

(click on name of each cookie for recipe)<\/p>\n

This year was the first time that I made these traditional, Italian cookies from the beloved and departed Gourmet magazine (the other three on the platter, above, are time-tested family favorites,) but they will most likely be a new yearly addition to our holiday planning.\u00a0 They are rich and VERY sweet and a little finicky and time-consuming to make, but they are almond-y moist and deliciously sweet.\u00a0 They are quite good with the apricot jam, but would also be good with seedless raspberry or maybe even strawberry or cherry preserves, instead.\u00a0 The heating\/straining step seems tedious, but I do believe that it’s necessary for easier spreading and to ensure that the layered bars remain intact.\u00a0 These cookies are breathtakingly colorful and gorgeous on a cookie tray.\u00a0 The colors are very intense and vividly eye-catching.\u00a0 If you are disturbed by the amount of food coloring, you can make them all white (it won’t change the flavor,) but I do think that the colors are part of the appeal (and, I’m sure, have some symbolic “colors of the Italian flag” meaning, like a Caprese salad<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas Cookie Tray (I forgot to take a photo of the Seven-Layer Cookies, alone, so I only have them with the other cookies on a tray that I prepared for Christmas Eve at my mother-in-law’s, but you can still see how pretty these are.\u00a0 The photo on epicurious is even better.) from bottom to top: … Continue reading “Seven-Layer Cookies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desserts","category-favorites","category-vegetarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}