Dessert Recipes

Perfect Small-Batch Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins I want a pumpkin muffin. Not twelve of them. Not a giant batch that sits on the counter for … Read more

I didn’t set out to make a Labor Day dessert. Honestly, I was trying to use up a box of white cake mix and some … Read more

My sister, who has never once asked me to bake her anything in her adult life, texted me a photo of a zodiac wheel at … Read more

I burned the bottom of my first three skillet cookies before I figured out what I was doing wrong. Not just a little scorched—like, smoke-alarm-going-off, … Read more

I had been looking for a banana bread that actually had a crackling, crusty top and an open, tender crumb—the kind you see in bakeries … Read more

My sister-in-law, a woman who once declared that “marshmallows have no business on a vegetable,” was the reason I spent three Thanksgivings in a row … Read more

That first bite—the one where the crunchy, cinnamon-sugar top cracks under your teeth, and the inside is so soft and tender it practically melts—that’s the … Read more

“I just want something that tastes like a hug.” That’s what my sister said when she called me on a chilly October evening, the kind … Read more

The way the caramel sauce pools in the little divots of the pumpkin cake batter—thick and glossy, catching the light like amber glass—that’s the whole … Read more

Dumped a whole stick of butter into the pan and watched it hiss and sputter, the kitchen already smelling like Thanksgiving morning even though it … Read more