Dessert Recipes

The neighborhood fall potluck was in three hours and I had completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing those elaborate, multi-day projects—the kind with handmade … Read more

I was standing in the canned fruit aisle at the grocery store last Tuesday, staring at a jar of caramel sauce I had no business … Read more

I was at my local hardware store last October, waiting in line with a new showerhead and a bag of lightbulbs, when the woman behind … Read more

My neighbor, a retired nurse named Carol, asked me why I couldn’t just dump everything in one bowl and skip the whole “mix dry ingredients … Read more

She watched me fumbling with a box of instant cookie mix in the grocery aisle, my cart overflowing with apples from the weekend orchard trip. … Read more

I swore I wasn’t an apple cake person. For years, I’d pass them by at bake sales and brunches, eyeing those sad, dense slices that … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Wednesday in October, and I had a very specific, almost aggressive craving for pumpkin pie. Not just any … Read more

My sister swore she was done with Halloween baking. For three years straight, she’d announced it every October first, like some kind of annual declaration … Read more

My neighbor Karen wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a ladder—our gutters were clogged and a storm was rolling in—and the … Read more

There used to be a little bakery tucked into a strip mall on the corner of Elm and Third, right next to a dry cleaner … Read more