Dessert Recipes

My sister asked why I couldn’t just toss the apples in the pan with some butter before baking them. I started to explain why that … Read more

I was standing in the middle of the spice aisle at my local grocery store last October, staring blankly at the pumpkin pie spice, when … Read more

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

I used to think pumpkin pie was a bit of a one-trick pony. Honestly, for years, I’d pass it by at the Thanksgiving table in … Read more

This was supposed to be a batch of cream cheese brownies. I had the butter softening, the chocolate melting, and I was feeling pretty good … Read more

I wasn’t supposed to be there long. I’d stopped by my neighbor’s house on a drizzly Tuesday afternoon to return a casserole dish she’d loaned … Read more

The Super Bowl party was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten I was supposed to bring something for the snack table. Everyone else would … Read more

This was supposed to be a peach cobbler. I had the peaches, the butter, the flour—the whole plan mapped out in my head. But somewhere … Read more

I was standing in the baking aisle last October, staring at a can of pumpkin puree like it held the secrets to the universe. The … Read more

My neighbor, a retired baker named Clara, watched me wrestling with a bag of peaches at the community garden last August. I was trying to … Read more