Dessert Recipes

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked between a laundromat and a vintage shop on the edge of downtown Portland that made the best … Read more

My accountant, of all people, is the one who changed my fall baking forever. I was sitting in his cramped office last October, half-listening to … Read more

The woman at the community garden plot next to mine watched me staring at her pumpkin patch for a solid minute before she spoke. I … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Thursday, and I had the weirdest craving for something chocolatey, creamy, and a little bit silly. You know … Read more

My neighbor wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a ladder—my gutters were clogged and it was raining sideways—and this smell hit … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a drizzly Wednesday in October, and I had a single, bizarre craving: zucchini bread. Not cake, not cookies—specifically that dense, … Read more

I was standing in the middle of the baking aisle at my local grocery store last November when a woman walked past me carrying a … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Wednesday in July, and I had a very specific, almost aggressive craving for something cold, chocolatey, and campfire-adjacent. … Read more

Hand me that butter, please. That’s what my neighbor, a retired baker named Frank, said the first time he caught me staring at his kitchen … Read more

I was waiting for my car to get an oil change last October when the mechanic—a guy named Leo with grease up to his elbows—started … Read more