Dessert Recipes

My friend Jenna asked why I couldn’t just use a toothpick to draw the constellation lines on the cake. I started to explain why that … Read more

The church bake sale was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. I was standing in my kitchen at 6 AM on a Saturday, still … Read more

I was standing in the spice aisle of our local grocery store last October when a woman walked past me, and the air shifted. She … Read more

It was 11:43 PM on a dreary Thursday, and the craving for something warm and comforting hit hard. I didn’t have any pumpkin puree left, … Read more

I was standing in my kitchen last December, wrestling with a gingerbread recipe that had gone sideways. The dough was too sticky, the molasses had … Read more

My neighbor, a retired pastry chef named Mrs. Gable, watched me struggling to roll out a sticky, pale sugar cookie dough on my kitchen counter … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a rainy Wednesday in mid-October, and I had a stupid amount of Halloween candy staring at me from the kitchen … Read more

I had refused to participate in my neighborhood’s annual Halloween block party for three years. Not because I’m a Grinch—honestly, I love seeing little kids … Read more

My nephew asked why I couldn’t just dump everything in one bowl and call it done. I was mid-lecture about layering flavors and coating techniques—the … Read more

I was standing in the candy aisle at the grocery store last October, staring at a bag of pretzel rods, when the weirdest thing happened. … Read more