Dessert Recipes

It is 7:43 PM on a Tuesday in late October, and the only thing I want is a soft chewy small-batch pumpkin snickerdoodle. The house … Read more

I burned three batches of pumpkin cookies before I figured out why they tasted like ash instead of autumn. It wasn’t the oven temperature, and … Read more

“You know what I’m craving? Just a dozen cookies. Not two dozen, not four dozen. Exactly twelve warm, gooey chocolate chip cookies.” My sister said … Read more

My friend Jenna swore she could make ice cream without a machine. I laughed. I mean, honestly, I thought she was crazy. We were standing … Read more

The thump of a single, heavy banana hitting the bottom of the grocery bag. That was it. Not the smell of baking, not a childhood … Read more

My six-year-old niece took one look at the tray and whispered, “Are we allowed to eat these, or are they too scary?” That’s when I … Read more

The last cinnamon roll was gone before I poured my coffee. My husband had the nerve to ask if there were more hidden somewhere. That … Read more

I figured the combination of pumpkin and chai would be good in a cookie—how could it not be? It took about one bite of my … Read more

Third time in six days and I finally stopped overmixing the cream cheese. That was the thing, you know—the one tiny detail that kept my … Read more

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