{"id":895,"date":"2007-02-19T20:50:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=895"},"modified":"2007-02-19T20:50:26","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T20:50:26","slug":"red-velvet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"red velvet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though my index finger was aching from the rotary cutter incident, it didn&#8217;t hurt enough to keep me from baking. I had read about these Red Velvet Cake Sandwich Cookies on <a href=\"http:\/\/bakingsheet.blogspot.com\/\">Nic&#8217;s food blog<\/a> (recipe <a href=\"http:\/\/bakingsheet.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/red-velvet-cake-sandwich-cookies.html\">here<\/a>) and had to try them out. I love Red Velvet Cake, and these were little sandwich cookies with Mascarpone Cream Cheese Frosting squished in the middle. Yowza.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/red velvet cake sandwich cookies.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"red velvet cake sandwich cookies.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/red velvet cake sandwich cookies-thumb.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center>These little guys were fun to whip up. The cookies are rather soft and reminded me of muffin tops. I didn&#8217;t have mascarpone, so I made a basic cream cheese frosting with 1\/2 stick of unsalted butter, 1\/2 a brick of cream cheese, a splash of vanilla extract, and 2 cups of powdered sugar. These cookies are really perfect for frosting lovers who feel sad after they&#8217;ve eaten the top of a cupcake and have frostingless cake remaining. I was really happy to be able to share these with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.action-hero.net\/blog\/knitblog.html\">Action Hero Melissa<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/westcoastcrafty.wordpress.com\/\">Susan<\/a>, who is up visiting from LA. Poor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofcraft.org\/doors\/portland\/index.html\">Sister Diane<\/a> can&#8217;t eat sugar, so she got nothing (hey Diane, I&#8217;ll use Splenda next time!).<br \/>\nAgain, the recipe is <a href=\"http:\/\/bakingsheet.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/red-velvet-cake-sandwich-cookies.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though my index finger was aching from the rotary cutter incident, it didn&#8217;t hurt enough to keep me from baking. I had read about these Red Velvet Cake Sandwich Cookies on Nic&#8217;s food blog (recipe here) and had to try &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=895\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","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=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}