Dessert Recipes

My sister claimed she hated snickerdoodles. For years. She’d pass the cookie plate at family gatherings with a polite “no thank you,” reaching instead for … Read more

Honestly, I have made a lot of apple crisps in my day. Some were great, some were… fine. But this one? This is the one … Read more

I was standing in the baking aisle of my local grocery store last October when the smell of cinnamon and nutmeg from a nearby candle … Read more

The classroom Halloween party was in thirty minutes and I’d completely forgotten. My kid had reminded me that morning—I even wrote it on my hand—but … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked between a laundromat and a used bookstore on the corner of Elm and 4th called The Gilded … Read more

Megan wasn’t trying to be the Halloween hero of the neighborhood. She’d texted me that morning saying, “I have a weird amount of white chocolate … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a quiet Tuesday, and I had this very specific, almost aggressive craving for a warm chocolate chip cookie. You know … Read more

My niece Lily asked why I couldn’t just use black cocoa powder instead of all that gel food coloring. I started to explain why that … Read more

My nephew Leo showed up at my door at 4 PM on a Saturday, already in his werewolf costume, asking if we could make something … Read more

The woman at the community garden plot next to mine watched me wrestling with a bag of overripe bananas on a Tuesday afternoon. She didn’t … Read more