{"id":61,"date":"2012-04-27T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2013-04-16T17:46:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T17:46:26","slug":"dinosaur-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaur Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kloh\/6972032722\/\" title=\"DSC_5207.jpg by kloh!, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7134\/6972032722_7e6dcdde6c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" alt=\"DSC_5207.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the last two nights Danielle and I have made some pretty awesome (at least to look at) cookies. Dinosaurs-who-eat-children cookies! It&#8217;s actually three dinosaur shaped sugar cookies glued together with icing. The center one has a hole cut in it to hold the contents of the dinosaur&#8217;s stomach. In this case, upon CH&#8217;s suggestion, sour patch kids &#8212; since everyone knows dinosaurs eat children! Roar!<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/food-and-recipes\/articles\/958083\/cinco-de-mayo-pinata-cookies\" title=\"Pinata Cookies!\">this<\/a> guide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kloh\/6972027954\/\" title=\"DSC_5131.jpg by kloh!, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7204\/6972027954_b52cbb8c12.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" alt=\"DSC_5131.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nMake some colored blobs of dough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kloh\/6972028498\/\" title=\"DSC_5134.jpg by kloh!, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7249\/6972028498_916e086efe.jpg\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" alt=\"DSC_5134.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nCarefully make a block of dough in stripes. Freeze it overnight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kloh\/7118107153\/\" title=\"DSC_5170.jpg by kloh!, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8150\/7118107153_f605297705.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" alt=\"DSC_5170.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nSlice it into sheets. Then bake it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kloh\/6972030524\/\" title=\"DSC_5185.jpg by kloh!, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7187\/6972030524_6e0ab26613.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" alt=\"DSC_5185.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nQuickly, before the cookies cool and they get hard to cut, use a dinosaur cookie cutter on them. Also, a circle to cut out their stomachs. Carefully assemble them with royal icing. Two whole dino cookies + one with a cut out stomach in the middle<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kloh\/6972031108\/\" title=\"DSC_5189.jpg by kloh!, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7188\/6972031108_d32c1fbdb5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" alt=\"DSC_5189.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nFill their bellies with sourpatch kids. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kloh\/7118110057\/\" title=\"DSC_5194.jpg by kloh!, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7135\/7118110057_76a7499074.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" alt=\"DSC_5194.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nLet them sit for 30 minutes to dry before standing them up. It might be helpful to flatten them gently since the dinosaurs probably aren&#8217;t perfectly flat but be careful not to break them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two nights Danielle and I have made some pretty awesome (at least to look at) cookies. Dinosaurs-who-eat-children cookies! It&#8217;s actually three dinosaur shaped sugar cookies glued together with icing. The center one has a hole cut in it to hold the contents of the dinosaur&#8217;s stomach. In this case, upon CH&#8217;s suggestion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[30,44],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafting","category-food","tag-baking","tag-experimental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}