{"id":404,"date":"2023-12-17T18:28:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T18:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/?p=404"},"modified":"2023-12-17T22:49:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T22:49:37","slug":"advent-day-17-bake-christmas-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/17\/advent-day-17-bake-christmas-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Day 17 &#8211; Bake Christmas Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a very long day yesterday, we are happy to spend this Sunday at home.  Today&#8217;s activity is to bake some Christmas cookies.  I intentionally planned to bake on a weekend so we would have lots of time to make a mess and then clean up after.  The luxury of extra times makes the mess less stressful for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elf kicked things off with some baking themed mischief this morning.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9476-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"elf with blender ready to bake cookies\" class=\"wp-image-400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9476-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9476-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9476-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9476-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9476-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I definitely could have made this scene more elaborate, but after a full day of solo parenting yesterday (my husband was super sick), this was all I could muster last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We made some easy shortbread cookies with a recipe passed down to me from my mom&#8217;s friend (see below if you&#8217;re interested in the recipe).  The kids had fun cutting out the shapes and trying to get them onto the pan.  My 3 year old participated for about 5 minutes and my 5 year old for 10 minutes, so I was pleasantly surprised that it was a fairly quick activity.  I think sticking with an easy recipe was a good choice for us.  We can get more fancy as the kids get older and have more experience with baking.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_4746-1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"kids making Christmas Cookies\" class=\"wp-image-401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_4746-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_4746-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_4746-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_4746-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_4746-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_4756-1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"kids cutting out cookies\" class=\"wp-image-402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_4756-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_4756-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_4756-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_4756-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_4756-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption wp-element-caption\">Baking Christmas cookies in Halloween pajamas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9480-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Christmas shortbread cookies\" class=\"wp-image-403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9480-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9480-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9480-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9480-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9480-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shortbread ready to go in the oven<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recipe for Janet&#8217;s Shortbread<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 cup butter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 1\/2 cups all purpose flour<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1\/2 cup berry sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Combine and cream butter and sugar.  Add 2 cups of flour and mix.  Add remaining 1\/2 cup of flour only to the point needed (I usually only use 1.5 tbsp).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roll out 1\/4&#8243; and cut out.  Place on greased cookie sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bake at 325 degrees F for 20 minutes (or until slightly brown).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a very long day yesterday, we are happy to spend this Sunday at home. Today&#8217;s activity is to bake some Christmas cookies. I intentionally planned to bake on a weekend so we would have lots of time to make a mess and then clean up after. The luxury of extra times makes the mess &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/17\/advent-day-17-bake-christmas-cookies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Day 17 &#8211; Bake Christmas Cookies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,45,44,6],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-activityadvent","tag-bakingwithkids","tag-christmasbakingwithkids","tag-kidsadvent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}