Dessert Recipes

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

“These taste like fall in a cookie—what did you put in them?” My neighbor Kelly leaned against my kitchen counter, holding a half-eaten cookie like … Read more

My neighbor texted me a picture of an empty plate at 9:47 PM on a Tuesday. “Those muffins are gone,” she wrote. “Send the recipe … Read more