Have you ever had a black bottom muffin/cupcake? It’s basically a chocolate cake base with a cream cheese cheesecake-like topping and it is definitely a decadent treat. These have some redeeming nutritional value since they have three bananas and we used low-fat cream cheese, but do not be fooled- even though these are acceptable for…
Category: Dessert
Grapefruit Olive Oil Pound Cake
One of our aunts makes an olive oil cake that is truly excellent. She’s made a rosemary lemon cake and a fennel cake with a berry compote on top. Each time she’s made it, Leah and I have told ourselves to find a good recipe and make one on our own! Because an olive oil…
Oatmeal Snack Cake
Despite our lack of posting over the past couple of weeks, we have done a good amount of baking over Christmas. We’ve been making some repeat recipes (such as chocolate chip cookies and brownies) but a few new recipes as well, including pecan crescent cookies and this oatmeal snack cake. This cake is pretty wonderful….
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…
Lemon Madeleines
We had been wanting to make madeleines for so long before we finally bought the pans and made a batch. They are one of those elegant treats that we admired from afar, but never attempted to make. They are cute, but don’t quite look worth the time to make. I mean, you might as well…
Brown Sugar Cookies
We attend a small Catholic school run by nuns (although there are not too many of them! I’ve only had one teacher who is a nun). The retired nuns from the order that runs our school live in their own retirement home nearby, and our school has a service club that visits them every now…
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,…
Strawberry Cake
Hi, everyone! We’re sorry about the week off from posting-we were very busy this past week with activities and homework, so we ran out of time to post. But we have some great recipes for you this week, including this cake: Our 18th birthday was on Thursday! The only wild and crazy thing we plan…
We Like Two Cook 