Dessert Recipes

This was supposed to be banana bread. Plain, simple, my-mom’s-recipe banana bread that I could practically make in my sleep. I had the bananas sitting … Read more

My friend Jen asked why I couldn’t just brown the butter first, then mix it into the oat topping. I started to explain why that … Read more

I was standing in line at the hardware store last October, clutching a new showerhead and silently praying the line would move faster, when the … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a rain-soaked Tuesday in October, and I had a fierce, almost irrational craving for something warm, spiced, and utterly autumnal. … Read more

The neighborhood fall bake-off was in twenty-four hours and I’d completely forgotten. I mean, I’d been so caught up in watching the leaves change and … Read more

I wasn’t planning on baking anything that Tuesday. I’d stopped by my neighbor Maria’s house to borrow a cup of sugar—how cliché, right?—and the smell … Read more

My neighbor asked why I couldn’t just use a boxed cake mix for pumpkin cookies. I started to explain why that wouldn’t work—then stopped. Honestly, … Read more

I was standing in line at the hardware store last October, holding a bag of lightbulbs and a new garden hose, when the man behind … Read more

My aunt swore she wasn’t a pumpkin dessert person. For years, she’d pass the pie, push away the bread, and politely decline anything that hinted … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a random Wednesday in October, and I was three days past my last grocery run. The craving hit me out … Read more