Dessert Recipes

The doorbell rang at 7:15 PM, and I froze. I had just finished scrubbing the kitchen counters, and my brain was already in “shut down” … Read more

The marbled ribbons of cream cheese cutting through the deep orange crumb are what this recipe is for — everything else is secondary. You know, … Read more

I want a slice of cake that tastes like a crisp October morning right now, and I have everything except the patience to wait for … Read more

I thought reducing apple cider into a syrup for donut batter would be a simple matter of simmering and waiting. It took about forty-five minutes … Read more

By the fourth time I made these soft chewy brown butter pumpkin snickerdoodles this week, I had the stove’s flame setting memorized better than my … Read more

The oven timer screamed at me while I was still trying to find my other shoe. It was that specific kind of panic where the … Read more

“Why do you always make the fancy stuff with the separate pan for the topping?” My sister asked this over a messy kitchen counter last … Read more

The cake mix box said “just add eggs, oil, and water.” I figured that was the whole story. It took about one slice of my … Read more

“Mama, why don’t you ever make that peach thing anymore?” My daughter asked this last summer, completely out of the blue. We were standing in … Read more

The pumpkin purée was already open in the fridge from a batch of pumpkin cream cheese muffins I’d made two days before, and I had … Read more