Macaron Makin'

  Just give us some ingredients, 

a well equipped kitchen, 

and 7 hours 

and we can have a hundred or so delicious french macarons ready for you. 

The magic is all in the tedious bit leading up to the piped tray below, 

but our hands were too busy to take pictures. 

Plus,

we can't reveal our secrets ;)

Voila!  Peppermint and Salted Caramel macarons. 

The salted caramel are our specialty.  

This time we made the caramel from scratch - 

oh my goodness delicious.

I'm never buying caramel again.

Of course, 

after a long night of baking, 

we had to try out our competition. 

We stopped by Laudree to pick up a salted caramel and they were sold out -

but the silver foil vanilla macaron was heavenly. 

Overall - our macarons take a pretty close second to Laudree. 

We have baked macarons for 

1 baby shower, 

1 Christmas party, 

1 prize package

and we have a second baby shower in the works. 

So seriously.  

Should we start a bakery?

Mount Titlis

A few days before Christmas, 

we took off for the Alps and hiked

Mount Titlis with our friends. 

photos and videography courtesy of Alysa Aeschbacher

Konstanz

The past couple weeks have been crazy. 

We moved apartments but had a small gap between our contracts, 

so we took the opportunity to travel to Konstanz!

View from our Airbnb room!

Grossmünster

Imperia Statue

Standing in 2 countries at once!

Konstanz Weihnachtsmarkt

fresh baked gingerbread and pony rides

Weihnachtsschiff

Delicious Baumstriezel

Dresdner Handbrot

We love German street food. 

It is seriously the most delicious thing we have ever tasted. 

Our last night we had dinner reservations at Tolle Knolle. 

potato pizza and caprese salad

and the most delicious authentic German chocolate cake

Tolle Knolle was awesome.  

Good food, nice atmosphere, great price. 

All of our friends recommended it and we were not disappointed!

We have debated taking the train to Tolle Knolle for dinner...

it would still be less than eating out here in Zurich!

All around, Konstanz was wonderful. 

Even with overcast skies,  

the lake and town were beautiful and so much fun. 

We would highly recommend it :)