Dessert Recipes

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

My sister swore she hated mint and chocolate together. For years. Since childhood, she’d turn up her nose at peppermint patties, declare Thin Mints overrated, … Read more

The neighborhood cookie swap was in three hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing their grandmother’s secret recipes—things that had been passed … Read more

I’m not supposed to play favorites with recipes, but honestly, this one is different. After testing it for a neighbor’s birthday potluck last fall, I … Read more

My neighbor wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a ladder — ours had mysteriously vanished during a garage cleanout — and … Read more