Dessert Recipes

The crackled, sugar-crusted surface. That’s the whole reason I kept coming back to the mixing bowl. Not the pumpkin spice aroma filling my kitchen (though … Read more

Three cans of pumpkin puree staring at me from the pantry shelf. I’d bought them on a whim back in September, convinced I’d be that … Read more

For a while, I just accepted that homemade cinnamon rolls were a weekend-only project. The kind of thing you start on a Saturday morning with … Read more

I want a pumpkin roll. Not a cake, not a pie, not even those cute little pumpkin muffins I made last week. A roll. Specifically, … Read more

I figured candy corn and popcorn would be a weird combination. It took about one handful for that assumption to get demolished completely. It was … Read more

My niece didn’t even say thank you. She just stood there, cookie in hand, staring at it like I’d handed her a winning lottery ticket. … Read more

The kitchen timer had just clicked off, and I was standing there in the dark at 9 PM on a Tuesday, spatula in hand, staring … Read more

The way the ice cream just barely starts to melt into the warm cider, forming those delicate white and caramel-colored swirls on the surface—that’s the … Read more

My neighbor Karen texted me a photo of her toast last Tuesday. It was slathered with something golden and speckled, and the caption just said, … Read more

Sunday afternoon, three in the afternoon, and the kitchen smelled like cinnamon and something brown-sugary baking. I wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I had a … Read more