{"id":492,"date":"2013-10-30T19:37:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T02:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2013-10-30T19:38:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T02:38:52","slug":"happy-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"happy halloween!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"halloween macarons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/10506028533\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"halloween macarons\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5517\/10506028533_683ba793e2_z.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"371\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>I got in the halloween spirit last week and baked a few batches of appropriately-colored treats. I repeated the pumpkin pie macarons of <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=349\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a>, and also tried out black sesame and chai tea versions of my favorite cookie. They were a huge hit, and in spite of the overload of food coloring necessary to tint them a dramatic black, the sesame macarons are a new favorite of mine. To make them, I slipped couple tablespoons of ground sesame seeds in the batter and a teaspoon of tahini in my favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=123\" target=\"_blank\">mascarpone frosting<\/a>. A sprinkle of black sesame seeds graced the top of each cookie. The chai tea macarons got a good dose of cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, and a frosting that was flavored with black tea. I love adding new flavors to my macaron repertoire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got in the halloween spirit last week and baked a few batches of appropriately-colored treats. I repeated the pumpkin pie macarons of last year, and also tried out black sesame and chai tea versions of my favorite cookie. They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=492\">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":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}