Dessert Recipes

The plastic cup was empty. Not just scraped clean, but actually devoid of anything but a few crumbs of chocolate cookie and a smear of … Read more

The house was finally quiet. The doorbell had stopped ringing an hour ago, and the bowl of store-bought treats on the counter looked suspiciously like … Read more

I burned the first batch of chewy pumpkin pie thumbprint cookies because I didn’t wait for the dough to chill properly. It wasn’t a dramatic … Read more

I figured decorating cookies was just a matter of piping black lines until they looked like legs. It took about two hours of squinting and … Read more

November 2nd, and the house is finally quiet. The last of the Halloween decorations are being taken down, the plastic pumpkins stacked in a closet … Read more

The last cookie from the batch disappeared before I could even grab a photo. My husband, who claims he “doesn’t have a sweet tooth,” had … Read more

I burned banana bread more times than I’d like to admit before I figured out the real problem. It wasn’t the oven temperature, the pan, … Read more

The cream cheese layer slid off the knife in one clean sweep. No cracks. No crumbs. Just that sharp, clean edge that tells you something … Read more

My grandmother handed me her pumpkin pie recipe on a stained index card, and I shoved it in a drawer for three years. I did … Read more

The first real chill of November had settled into the house, the kind that creeps through the windows no matter how high you turn the … Read more