Dessert Recipes

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked between a laundromat and a nail salon on the edge of town that made the most ridiculous … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a drizzly Tuesday in early November, and I had a single, obsessive thought: I needed pumpkin bread. Not the fancy … Read more

The power went out halfway through my first attempt at making a proper apple crisp. It was a Tuesday evening in late October, the kind … Read more

I wasn’t supposed to be paying attention. I’d stopped by my neighbor Sarah’s house on a rainy Tuesday morning to drop off a book I’d … Read more

I was at my nephew’s fourth birthday party, trying to help with the chaos, when my brother-in-law—the guy who burns toast—started talking about dessert. He … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple loaf of banana bread. I had the bananas, the flour, the sugar — the whole routine I’d done … Read more

The summer I turned thirty, my air conditioner broke during a record-breaking heatwave. I was sprawled on my couch, fan pointed directly at my face, … Read more

Introduction I was standing in the grocery store aisle last Saturday, juggling a cracked carton of eggs and a bunch of spotted bananas, when the … Read more

The neighborhood book club was in thirty minutes and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing these fancy, multi-layered desserts that looked like they … Read more

This was supposed to be a straightforward batch of classic sugar cookie bars for Halloween. I grabbed the wrong flour (cake flour instead of all-purpose), … Read more