Dessert Recipes

This was supposed to be a salted caramel tart. A proper one, with a shortbread crust and a carefully tempered chocolate ganache on top. I … Read more

My niece asked why I couldn’t just bake the cake in a sheet pan and crumble it up with frosting. I started to explain why … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Tuesday in late October, and I had this very specific, almost ridiculous craving for Thanksgiving in cookie form. … Read more

My neighbor Mark had refused to eat pumpkin pie for fifteen years. Fifteen years. “It’s baby food in a crust,” he’d announce every Thanksgiving, pushing … Read more

My sister-in-law had claimed to hate anything that looked “gimmicky” for a solid decade. No themed cupcakes. No holiday-shaped cookies. No food that winked at … Read more

My neighbor, an older woman named Gloria whose front porch always smelled like cinnamon, watched me fumbling with a complicated Halloween popcorn recipe I’d found … Read more

The neighborhood cookie swap was in three hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing their grandmother’s legendary shortbread, perfectly piped French macarons, … Read more

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

My neighbor, a man named Frank who I’d only ever seen grilling steaks and ribs, had claimed to hate pumpkin bread for forty-two years. Forty-two … Read more

I was folding laundry last Wednesday—a truly forgettable activity in a stack of unmatched socks—when the smell of someone else’s wood-burning fireplace drifted through my … Read more