Dessert Recipes

My sister-in-law, Claire, had sworn off pumpkin desserts for over a decade. A bad pumpkin pie incident at a Thanksgiving potluck in 2012—something about undercooked … Read more

Last Sunday afternoon, I was waiting in line at the local farmers market when the sudden scent of cinnamon and nutmeg from a nearby vendor’s … Read more

The lady at the craft store counter watched me loading up on black gel food coloring and royal icing mix, and didn’t say anything at … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a drizzly Wednesday in mid-October, and I had a bag of candy corn staring at me from the counter with … Read more

My neighbor Marianne saw me wrestling with a sticky sourdough starter on my front porch last October. I was trying to feed it before a … Read more

I had a rule about pumpkin-flavored things. Actually, it was more of a stubborn conviction—pumpkin belonged in pie, and that was the beginning and end … Read more

My older brother swore he hated chocolate cake. For years. His entire adult life, actually. Then last spring, I showed up at his door with … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Tuesday in October, and I had a very specific craving for something warm, spiced, and carb-heavy. I didn’t … Read more

I wasn’t expecting much when I walked into my neighbor’s kitchen that Tuesday afternoon. I had stopped by to borrow a ladder—mine had mysteriously vanished … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked between a dry cleaner and a vintage shop on the corner of Elm and 4th that made … Read more