Dessert Recipes

It was 11:47 PM on a drizzly Tuesday in early October, and I had a pumpkin-shaped hole in my soul. Not the kind that needs … Read more

My husband, Mark, had claimed to hate blondies for years. A solid decade. He’d make a face anytime someone brought a pan to a potluck, … Read more

The woman at the farmers market stall watched me pick up and put down the same bag of apples three times. I couldn’t decide between … Read more

My friend Jen asked why I couldn’t just brown the butter in the same pan I was going to mix the batter in. I started … Read more

My sister-in-law, Rachel, wasn’t trying to impress anyone that Tuesday afternoon. I’d stopped by to drop off a book she’d loaned me, and the smell … Read more

The school bake sale was in twelve hours and I’d completely forgotten. My son had been reminding me for a week—”Mom, don’t forget the cookies!”—and … Read more

I wasn’t expecting culinary inspiration from the quiet guy who fixes our office printer, but there I was, watching him methodically dip strawberries into a … Read more

My niece asked why I couldn’t just add a little red food coloring to my regular sugar cookie dough instead of making a whole separate … Read more

I was standing in the spice aisle of my local grocery store last December when it hit me. Not a person, not a cart – … Read more

I was elbow-deep in a stack of dusty vinyl records at a tiny antique shop in rural Vermont when the owner—a woman named Ethel who … Read more