{"id":1450,"date":"2011-12-26T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T02:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2011-12-26T19:30:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T02:30:20","slug":"berger-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"berger cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000329.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000329-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"homemade berger cookie\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000329-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000329-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>If I were to dwell on the negative, I would think about all the years I was deprived of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bergercookies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Berger Cookies<\/a>. Instead, though, I will look on the bright side and just be grateful that I have a good friend who hails from Baltimore, Maryland, who was kind and generous enough to bring me some Berger Cookies on her last trip. People, I am telling you, if you used to eat spoonfuls of chocolate frosting from a can like I did, then these cookies are for you. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000331-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"berger cookies\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000331-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P1000331-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>They are very sweet, but they are cookies! They&#8217;re supposed to be sweet! I had to set myself a limit of one per day. When I ran out, I wept for a day, and then I realized that someone must have thought about trying to make these things. All hail the internet! I checked out several recipes then went with the one from King Arthur Flour. I opted for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingarthurflour.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/11\/baltimores-finest-the-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\">the sequel<\/a> rather than the original, I think because the sequel has more frosting. Heh. I have to confess I was worried that the fine folks at King Arthur Flour would try to make the cookies more, you know, organic or whole grainy or something, but thankfully they did not. Give &#8217;em a try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I were to dwell on the negative, I would think about all the years I was deprived of Berger Cookies. Instead, though, I will look on the bright side and just be grateful that I have a good friend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=1450\">Continue reading <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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}