{"id":1892,"date":"2013-12-08T16:16:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T22:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2017-06-17T21:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T02:03:48","slug":"2013-best-bite-8-basil-cream-roasted-strawberries-from-middlewest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/08\/2013-best-bite-8-basil-cream-roasted-strawberries-from-middlewest\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Best Bite #8: Basil + Cream + Roasted Strawberries from Middlewest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Each day in December, I&#8217;m celebrating the rest of the best bites (and sips) that I didn&#8217;t get to blog about in 2013, posted in chronological order. <a href=\"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/category\/best-bites-2\/\" title=\"Best Bites\">Browse all of this year&#8217;s Best Bites<\/a>, or look back at <a href=\"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/2012\/12\/31\/recap-30-best-bites-of-2012\/\" title=\"2012 Best Bites recap\">2012&#8217;s Best Bites<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2047\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2047\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/middlewestbasilstrawberrycake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/middlewestbasilstrawberrycake.jpg\" alt=\"Cake with basil, cream, roasted strawberries, ladyfingers, and pistachios\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2047\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/middlewestbasilstrawberrycake.jpg 552w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/middlewestbasilstrawberrycake-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/middlewestbasilstrawberrycake-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cake with basil, cream, roasted strawberries, ladyfingers, and pistachios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Why it&#8217;s another 2013 Best Bite<\/strong>: I made this icebox cake out of <em>Middlewest<\/em> magazine for the Fourth of July and it was a hit. While the whole process was a bit time-consuming, the intense flavors were completely worth it. Layers of basil-infused whipped cream and soft, caramelized strawberries soaked into the spongy ladyfingers, with sweet and crunchy pistachios to top everything off. <\/p>\n<p>Here is an awesome step-by-step video \u2013 made by <em>Middlewest<\/em>, not me! \u2013 if you want to see how the cake is assembled.<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Middlewest: Basil + Cream + Roasted Strawberry\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/63782085?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/2013\/04\/25\/delicious-event-middlewest-magazine-launch-making-its-pea-pate-recipe\/\" title=\"Delicious event: Middlewest magazine launch \/\/ making its pea p\u00e2t\u00e9 recipe\">View another post about <em>Middlewest<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The details<\/strong>: <em>Purchase Middlewest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.middlewestmag.com\/store\/\" title=\"Middlewest\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each day in December, I&#8217;m celebrating the rest of the best bites (and sips) that I didn&#8217;t get to blog about in 2013, posted in chronological order. Browse all of this year&#8217;s Best Bites, or look back at 2012&#8217;s Best Bites. Why it&#8217;s another 2013 Best Bite: I made this icebox cake out of Middlewest [&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":[2],"tags":[12,98,230,269,359,512,626,718,760,991],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-bites-2","tag-2013-best-bites","tag-basil","tag-cakes","tag-chicago","tag-cream","tag-fourth-of-july-desserts","tag-icebox-cakes","tag-magazine-recipes","tag-middlewest-magazine","tag-roasted-strawberries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}