Dessert Recipes

There used to be a tiny scoop shop on a side street in Portland called Salt & Straw that made a vanilla bean ice cream … Read more

My sister asked me why I couldn’t just swirl the pumpkin cheesecake mixture into the brownie batter instead of layering it. I started to explain … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a rainy Thursday in October, and I had a serious pumpkin bread craving. I mean the kind of craving that … Read more

This was supposed to be a batch of browned butter chocolate chip cookies. I mean, I had it all planned out—the butter was bubbling away … Read more

The fall bake sale was in less than twelve hours and I’d completely forgotten. My phone buzzed with a reminder I had apparently set for … Read more

Last October, my neighbor Carol watched me scraping a lump of sourdough discard into the trash can. She didn’t say anything at first. Then she … Read more

This was supposed to be a pumpkin pie. I mean, that was the plan—a classic, no-fuss pumpkin pie for a small Friendsgiving gathering I was … Read more

I wasn’t planning on making them. It was a Tuesday night in mid-October, and I’d stopped by my neighbor Jen’s house to drop off a … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a rainy Wednesday, and I was absolutely determined to bake something that tasted like fall. I had no canned pumpkin—the … Read more

My niece asked why I couldn’t just use pretzel sticks for the spider legs. I started to explain why that wouldn’t work — then stopped. … Read more