{"id":1796,"date":"2010-12-16T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2011-12-19T12:32:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T17:32:04","slug":"ganache-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/16\/ganache-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganache love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/5267012746\/\" title=\"ganache1 by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5170\/5267012746_83f32e06a9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" alt=\"ganache cookie 1\" style=\"border:1px solid black; background:white\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a family cookie exchange on Saturday, so I&#8217;m doing some testing. I have made thumbprint cookies almost every year since 2003. That&#8217;s 2 years before my motherhood. I&#8217;ve always been more of a baker than a cook. If I could provide cupcakes for breakfast and cookies for dinner, I would. <BR><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/5267012306\/\" title=\"ganache2 by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5124\/5267012306_4539d8f18e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" alt=\"ganache cookie 2\" style=\"border:1px solid black; background:white\"\/><\/a><BR><font size=\"-2\">I also made some with raspberry jam, per my mother&#8217;s request. <\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this year, I wanted something a little different. I decided to try my hand at ganache. Delicous, velvety, ganache heaven. I went with a bittersweet chocolate, so the flavor is very dark. I think it complements the cookie very well! I&#8217;ve always loved the flavor of dark chocolate, however, I am wondering if I could make the ganache with white chocolate, so that I could tint it red and make these more festive. <b>Any thoughts on that?<\/b><BR><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/5266405409\/\" title=\"ganache3 by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5009\/5266405409_7f5c53c31c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" alt=\"ganache cookie 3\" style=\"border:1px solid black; background:white\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><i>Yum.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Are you baking any cookies for the holidays? I would love to browse recipes and\/or baking blog posts! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5170\/5267012746_83f32e06a9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" alt=\"ganache cookie 1\" style=\"border:1px solid black; background:white\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a family cookie exchange on Saturday, so I&#8217;m doing some testing. I have made thumbprint cookies almost every year since 2003. That&#8217;s 2 years before my motherhood. I&#8217;ve always been more of a baker than a cook. If I could provide cupcakes for breakfast and cookies for dinner, I would. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5124\/5267012306_4539d8f18e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" alt=\"ganache cookie 2\" [Read More...]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42],"tags":[235,110,76,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}