{"id":2049,"date":"2012-03-25T21:34:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T02:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2012-03-25T21:34:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T02:34:24","slug":"homemade-graham-crackers-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"homemade graham crackers, take 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"cars cookies\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-2khtDebEduI\/T2_ShGBjHmI\/AAAAAAAATn0\/74tUJyWsAwk\/s800\/IMGP1372.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p>remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1766\">these graham crackers<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 well, about a month ago (near the happy toddler&#8217;s birthday) i decided to finally try <a href=\"http:\/\/smittenkitchen.com\/2009\/05\/graham-crackers\/\">the other recipe that i&#8217;d linked to in that first post<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 i&#8217;d recently found some cars cookie cutters (the kind that also stamp details into the cookie and don&#8217;t just give you the silhouette) at a local discount store, and i decided that these would be the perfect birthday treat to take to the happy toddler&#8217;s class (he doesn&#8217;t really go for cupcakes and i knew he&#8217;d be thrilled to see tow-mater).\u00c2\u00a0 how did they turn out?\u00c2\u00a0 delicious!\u00c2\u00a0 they taste more like a graham cracker to me than the other recipe, and in the first day or two after baking, they had the right crunch (rather than the softer, cookie-like consistency of the first batch).\u00c2\u00a0 but&#8230; i wouldn&#8217;t necessarily recommend them for use with a detailed cookie cutter like this one.\u00c2\u00a0 the dough was much more fiddly than the first recipe.\u00c2\u00a0 as soon as it wasn&#8217;t super cold, it got really hard to handle (sticking to the counter, sticking to the cookie cutter, easily smooshing out of shape) and the four cookies you see above were probably the most clearly identifiable out of the whole batch.\u00c2\u00a0 many of the rest looked more like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"um... cookies?\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-9sVUYcl3cJQ\/T2_SjvLh_VI\/AAAAAAAATn8\/gialqu78toQ\/s800\/IMGP1374.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i will say they had a surprisingly long shelf life (we just at the last of them today and they were still tasty&#8211; but they had definitely lost their crunch.\u00c2\u00a0 not stale, just soft and chewy.)\u00c2\u00a0 i think i&#8217;d try this recipe again, but with simpler shapes (rectangles, perhaps?) or i might try the<a title=\"graham cracker recipe #1\" href=\"http:\/\/healthychild.org\/blog\/comments\/diy_graham_crackers\/\"> other one <\/a>again and see if i could roll the dough more thinly and get the same cracker-y snap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>remember these graham crackers?\u00c2\u00a0 well, about a month ago (near the happy toddler&#8217;s birthday) i decided to finally try the other recipe that i&#8217;d linked to in that first post.\u00c2\u00a0 i&#8217;d recently found some cars cookie cutters (the kind that &hellip; 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