Dessert Recipes

The woman at the next stall watched me sniffing a jar of her brown butter powder for what felt like forever. I was at the … Read more

Karen wasn’t trying to show off. I’d stopped by her place on a rainy Tuesday to pick up a book I’d lent her, and the … Read more

My brother-in-law Mark had claimed to hate apple desserts for as long as I’d known him. “Too mushy,” he’d say, waving away a slice of … Read more

Crushing a sleeve of Oreos over a bowl of chocolate pudding when my phone buzzed with a text from my sister: “The kids are losing … Read more

The woman at the next stall watched me sniffing apples for a solid five minutes before she finally spoke. “You’re one of those,” she said, … Read more

“This tastes like a hug in cake form.” My sister said that, fork mid-air, after her first bite of this Cozy Spiced Apple Cider Bundt … Read more

I burned my first batch of these spider cookies so badly the smoke alarm went off, and my kids still asked if they could eat … Read more

I was standing in the grocery store parking lot last October, arms full of bags, when the breeze carried the scent of someone’s wood-burning fireplace … Read more

Last July, right when the heat was at its thickest—the kind where you don’t even want to look at your oven—my neighbor Maria saw me … Read more

That first crack through the powdered sugar—the way it gives way to reveal that perfect cinnamon-swirled spiral—still gets me every single time. It’s the kind … Read more