Dessert Recipes

My sister did not trust cream cheese in a pumpkin dessert. That’s the cold, hard truth I was working with last Thanksgiving when I told … Read more

November had settled into that particular kind of gray that makes the kitchen feel like the only room in the house that matters. The kind … Read more

I burned the first batch of apple cider donut muffins so badly the smoke alarm went off and my neighbor texted to ask if I … Read more

That first crack of cinnamon hitting hot oil in a pan — the kind that blooms out of nowhere and wraps itself around the entire … Read more

The way the pecan topping cracks under the spoon — that first break, then the give of soft apples underneath — that’s what this whole … Read more

Pulling a baking sheet out of the oven with one hand while trying to keep a toddler from unspooling the entire roll of parchment paper … Read more

I want apple cake. Not a fancy layered thing with buttercream, not a dry loaf that needs a glaze to be interesting. I want the … Read more

Fourth time in two weeks, and I finally stopped adding extra salt to the caramel. That first batch was a disaster—crystals formed on my teeth, … Read more

My husband took a bite, then another, and then he just stared at the plate. “This is… different,” he said, which from him is basically … Read more

The cobbler sat untouched for twenty minutes. I’d pulled it out of the oven, the bourbon-peach filling bubbling up through golden biscuit topping, and set … Read more