{"id":502,"date":"2016-05-27T01:43:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T01:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2016-05-27T01:43:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T01:43:31","slug":"judys-better-shortbread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Judy&#8217;s Better Shortbread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>1 cup salted butter, softened<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">1\/4 cup light brown sugar, packed<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">2 tsp. vanilla extract<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">2 cups all-purpose flour (don&#8217;t add more)<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Topping:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">1 T. salted butter<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">1 cup (6 0z.) semisweet chocolate chips \u00a0( you can include dark chocolate chips in if you want)<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">1 cup (4 oz) pecans, finely chopped<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Preheat oven to 350 degrees. \u00a0In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer at medium speed. \u00a0Scrape<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">down sides of bowl. \u00a0Add vanilla and flour. \u00a0Blend thoroughly on low speed. \u00a0Shape level tablespoons of dough into one<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">inch balls. \u00a0Form these balls into logs that are 2 inches long and 1 inch wide. \u00a0(I don&#8217;t make them quite so large) \u00a0Place on<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">an ungreased baking sheet, 2 inches apart.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Bake for 15-17 minutes or until cookies spread and turn a light golden brown. \u00a0Transfer to a cool flat surface.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">To make topping: \u00a0Melt butter and chocolate chips in a double boiler over hot (not boiling) water or melt in a microwave oven on<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">high power. \u00a0Stir chocolate every 30 seconds until melted. \u00a0Dip top of each cooled cookie into melted chocolate, then into pecans.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Place cookies on a 9 x 13 baking dish that is lined with waxed paper and refrigerate to set.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 cup salted butter, softened 1\/4 cup light brown sugar, packed 2 tsp. vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose flour (don&#8217;t add more) Topping: 1 T. salted butter 1 cup (6 0z.) semisweet chocolate chips \u00a0( you can include dark chocolate chips in if you want) 1 cup (4 oz) pecans, finely chopped Preheat oven to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.morgeneggweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}