{"id":420053,"date":"2022-12-06T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=420053"},"modified":"2022-12-06T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T14:04:29","slug":"can-this-kentucky-woman-bake-sweet-success-on-food-network-s-christmas-cookie-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/can-this-kentucky-woman-bake-sweet-success-on-food-network-s-christmas-cookie-challenge","title":{"rendered":"Can this Kentucky woman bake sweet success on Food Network&#8217;s &#8216;Christmas Cookie Challenge?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a talent scout from the Food Network contacted Versailles, Kentucky resident Lauren Jacobs about participating in its annual televised &#8221; Christmas Cookie Challenge ,&#8221; she thought she was being pranked. Jacobs, a former art teacher, had been baking cookies in her kitchen for years but she wasn&#8217;t exactly a household name in the baking world. Despite nearly 50,000 Instagram followers, Jacobs, who is known professionally as The Cheerful Baker , considered herself a small-town businesswoman. Besides baking for customers, she and her husband Stacy have also started The Cheerful Box , a cookie class in a box that is delivered monthly to her customers. &#8220;One of my joys in life is helping people find their creativity,&#8221; the Kentucky baker said. &#8220;Our Cheerful Box gives people the tools and instructions to make the same beautiful and delicious cookies at their house that I make at my home. &#8221; Food Network executives were so impressed by Jacobs&#8217; numerous how-to videos and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a talent scout from the Food Network contacted Versailles, Kentucky resident Lauren Jacobs about participating in its annual televised &#8220;Christmas Cookie Challenge,&#8221; she thought she was being pranked. Jacobs,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,108,1,112,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drinks","category-lifestyle","category-news","category-recipes","category-tv-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}