{"id":776,"date":"2011-12-27T01:03:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T01:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=776"},"modified":"2011-12-27T01:04:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T01:04:42","slug":"o-mommys-coconut-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"O-Mommy&#8217;s Coconut Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O-mommy lived in Quebec until the mid 70s. We eagerly anticipated the arrival of her Christmas package every year because it was sure to include a great big tin or two of Christmas cookies! This one was always one of my favourite! I liked the surprise of finding out what was in the middle but my own children are not so adventuresome and so I have come up with a way of identifying what is in the middle.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-777\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?attachment_id=777\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-777\" title=\"O-Mommy's Coconut Surprises\" src=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5264-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"O-Mommy's Coconut Surprises\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5264-1024x767.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5264-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5264.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">O-Mommy&#39;s Coconut Surprises<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1 cup Butter, softened<br \/>\n1\/2 cup Sugar<br \/>\n2 teaspoons Vanilla<br \/>\n2 cups Flour<br \/>\n1\/4 teaspoon Salt<br \/>\nWalnuts, Pecans, Cherries, Dates, Almonds, Flaked Coconut<\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 325F.<\/p>\n<p>In large mixing bowl, cream butter, sugar and vanilla.<br \/>\nAdd flour and salt; mix well.<br \/>\nShape a teaspoon and a half of dough around a nut or piece of fruit to form a \u00a01-inch ball. *I put a sliver of whatever I have concealed on top of the finished cookie in order to identify the filling later with the exception of Dates.<br \/>\nDip in coconut.<br \/>\nBake in preheated oven for approximately 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Yield: 3 dozen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O-mommy lived in Quebec until the mid 70s. We eagerly anticipated the arrival of her Christmas package every year because it was sure to include a great big tin or two of Christmas cookies! This one was always one of my favourite! I liked the surprise of finding out what was in the middle but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=776\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">O-Mommy&#8217;s Coconut Surprises<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-cookies-and-other-delights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}