Dessert Recipes

I was standing in the spice aisle of our local grocery store last Tuesday when a jar of ground ginger slipped from my fingers and … Read more

I was digging through the back of my pantry last Tuesday, looking for a bag of chocolate chips I swore I’d bought, when my fingers … Read more

The woman at the community garden plot next to mine watched me struggle with a bag of store-bought cake mix for a solid minute before … Read more

I used to think sheet cakes were a cop-out. Honestly, for years, I did. When my friend Jenna asked me to make her kid’s birthday … Read more

There used to be a little diner off Route 9, the kind with cracked vinyl booths and a jukebox that only played songs from the … Read more

Let me tell you about the first time I tried to make candy corn sugar cookies. It was a disaster. I mean, a real mess. … Read more

My husband had what he called a “principled stance” against hot chocolate for about fifteen years. Fifteen years. He’d claim it was too sweet, too … Read more

The neighborhood potluck was in three hours and I had completely forgotten. I mean, completely. I was standing in my kitchen staring at a pile … Read more

I was standing in the produce aisle last Tuesday, staring at a bag of apples, when the smell hit me—that specific, warm, cinnamon-and-brown-sugar scent that … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a particularly rainy Tuesday, and that very specific cookie craving hit. You know the one—where only a soft, warm, slightly … Read more