By Sara | December 23, 2010
For the past several years, we’ve hosted a holiday cookie exchange. As in past years, people brought delicious homemade treats and we sat around taste testing (read: chowing down) before taking nicely wrapped packages of cookies home. The roster this year included homemade chocolates, mint chocolate cookie pops, oatmeal butterscotch bars, grasshopper squares, cheesecake brownies, [...]
Our friend Russell (who happens to host this blog for us) decided to say adios to U.S. News and move onto greener, nonprofit pastures. (Is that an oxymoron?) Anyway, to celebrate/mourn/acknowledge his departure, I decided to make mini graduation caps. (The background: Russell and I both work on the Best College and Best Grad School [...]
By Sara | January 30, 2009
I’m going to a seminar at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., in a few weeks. In advance of the trip, I needed to get eight co-workers to complete surveys about me and my work. To entice people to fill it out, I told them I would make treats, since they surveys were to [...]
By Sara | November 22, 2008
I organize a fall-themed potluck at work each year. And each year, I bring basically the same thing: a 3D pumpkin cake. This year, Ella hung out with me in the kitchen as I prepared the cake, and she enjoyed getting to play around with various implements used in the process (or duplicates of what [...]
By Sara | October 30, 2008
Yay! My favorite holiday of the year is upon us, and that means one thing: baking! Here’s a photo of one type of treat I’ve made so far. They’re basically cake and frosting rolled into a ball and covered with melted chocolate and decorations. These are destined for the teachers at Ella’s daycare and possibly [...]
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