Dessert Recipes

The Fourth of July cookout was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten I was supposed to bring dessert. Everyone else would be bringing their … Read more

I burned the first batch of apple crisp topping I ever made. Not a little brown around the edges—I mean, blackened, smoky, set-off-the-smoke-alarm burnt. I … Read more

My neighbor rang the doorbell at 8:47 on a Tuesday morning holding a single, perfectly ripe sugar pumpkin. “I over-ordered for the pie contest,” she … Read more

Third batch in two days, and I finally stopped scraping the dough off the parchment paper before it hit the oven. That was the problem, … Read more

I figured apple cider donuts were a fair booth thing you had to wait in line for. It took about one autumn of living too … Read more

That faintly sweet, green-flecked shred of zucchini hitting the counter — still damp from washing, the seeds just starting to catch the light — takes … Read more

Rummaging through the pantry for the fourth time when I realized the hand mixer was still packed away somewhere from last month’s kitchen reorganization. Honestly, … Read more

I want something that feels like a splurge but doesn’t require turning on the oven. That’s where I land, mentally, every time I’ve got a … Read more

My husband took one bite, looked at the frosting mustache on his upper lip, and said, “Okay, you have to make these for everyone we … Read more

“You have to try this peppermint bark fudge I made—it’s dangerous,” my sister-in-law texted me last December, along with a blurry photo of something swirled … Read more