{"id":496,"date":"2005-04-20T20:37:56","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T20:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=496"},"modified":"2005-04-20T20:37:56","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T20:37:56","slug":"the-legendary-pink-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"the legendary pink cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, the <a href=\"http:\/\/girlreaction.prettyposies.com\/weblog\/\">blog police<\/a> busted me for being flaky on posts, so here ya go.<br \/>\nOnce upon a time, in a very unlikely place (Spokane, WA), I discovered the most delectable cookie ev-uh. It was big, melt-in-your-mouth buttery, dense, and best of all? It was generously smeared with pink frosting. My friends Jonathan and Taya (henceforth known as the Slabs) and I used to scour the coffee shops of Spokane in search of these elusive pink cookies. We finally figured out the source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inlander.com\/bestof2002\/282614926844547.php\">The Rocket Bakery<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis all transpired more than a decade ago, but the memories of those pink cookies lived on. I wrote to Bon Appetit magazine, hoping they might be able to coerce the recipe out of the Rocket Bakery; I wrote directly to the Rocket Bakery, pleading with them to share the recipe; I CALLED the bakery. I got NOTHING. So then last weekend my friend John traveled to Spokane. I told him he should try the pink cookie. Being the <strike>mentally unstable<\/strike> wonderfully generous friend that he is, he bought a stack of the cookies and overnighted them to me.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/pink cookie.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pink cookie.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/pink cookie-thumb.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" border=\"4\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI was worried that the cookie would not live up to my memories, but that concern was dispelled after the first bite. It tasted exactly as I remembered. Now if I could only get the dang recipe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, the blog police busted me for being flaky on posts, so here ya go. Once upon a time, in a very unlikely place (Spokane, WA), I discovered the most delectable cookie ev-uh. It was big, melt-in-your-mouth buttery, dense, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=496\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candychocolate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}