(Please excuse the picture quality! My beloved camera’s memory card slot is sadly broken, so in the meantime while I decide to fix/replace it, I’m just using my phone. This pic is from our Instagram account.) Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays! Leah and I are home from school after a busy and productive semester. We are thrilled…
Category: Holiday Treats
Eggnog Snickerdoodles
I know Christmas is over and most of you are probably no longer in Christmas baking mode, but I thought I’d share these cookies we made on Christmas Eve anyway just because they’re awesome! Snickerdoodles have always been one of my (Celine) favorite cookies. This eggnog-flavored version, which has nutmeg and rum extract to add…
Glazed Cranberry Lemon Cake
It feels so good to be home for Christmas! Getting back into the kitchen has been one of the best parts (and just being home in general!). Leah and I got home pretty late Wednesday night, and Thursday we looked around the kitchen to see what we had and noticed there was a bag of…
Midnight Pumpkin Layer Cake
Happy belated Thanksgiving! It’s been so long since we’ve published a blog post here. Since we left for college, we sadly have not had access to a kitchen (I can’t wait to be an upperclassmen when I have a kitchen in my dorm!). College has been going really well, but it was wonderful going home…
Chocolate Peppermint Cupcakes
I meant to blog about these cupcakes this morning, but they were for a yearbook meeting this afternoon (I know, we had to go to school during break) and I ran out of time to write a post before leaving. I still wanted to blog about them today, because I have some muffins to blog…
The Best Gingersnaps
I should probably be working on college applications instead of writing a blog post about gingersnaps, but sometimes my priorities are less mature than they should be. I won’t be too hard on myself about it, because these gingersnaps are seriously amazing! Plus, taking breaks participating in hobbies like baking/blogging helps give me the mental…
Cranberry Snowdrift Bars
I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving itself was good since we weren’t cooking, but when we attempted some new recipes for just our immediate family yesterday, none of them turned out that well. The rolls were a little dense and not very flavorful, the pumpkin pie was very mediocre, and our…
Poached Pear and Almond Tart
Happy Thanksgiving! We are finally getting around to posting a recipe suitable for Thanksgiving- after everyone has already planned their menus. Oh well! As we’ve said before, we don’t cook for holidays in advance just so that we can blog before the holiday (mostly because we are at school all day, have homework all night,…
Pumpkin Pie Crumb Bars
We’ve been going crazy with the pumpkin recipes this Fall, haven’t we? All of the pumpkin recipes that we’ve shared here so far have been delicious (especially these cupcakes), but these really take the cake (well, pie). These bars entail a perfectly spiced pumpkin pie filling sandwiched between two buttery oatmeal cookies, which, as you…
Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting
Let’s talk about things that are ugly. Some things that come into my (Celine) mind are suburban strip malls, rainy slush in the middle of winter, gum on the sidewalk, and the mood inside Congress on a normal day. All bad things, inside and out! But then there are ugly things that are actually good,…
We Like Two Cook 