Dessert Recipes

Third time in as many days and I still couldn’t stop staring at it before slicing in. The dark cocoa surface catching the kitchen light, … Read more

My nephew Liam took one bite, froze, and then held the cookie up to his face with wide eyes. “Auntie, I’m eating a finger,” he … Read more

My niece, Lily, showed up at my door last October, two hours before her school’s Halloween party, holding a bag of sugar cookies from the … Read more

I figured piping royal icing onto a sugar cookie would be a calm, precise, meditative activity. It took about thirty seconds for that illusion to … Read more

I did not trust oat crumble toppings. For years, they seemed like a compromise—a sad, sandy blanket over perfectly good fruit. Give me a proper … Read more

Late October, and the only thing I want is this pie. Not the fussy, oven-bound kind that cracks if you look at it wrong, but … Read more

The candy bowl was empty before the movie even started. My husband looked at me with this slightly panicked expression, like I’d hidden the remote … Read more

I made this dip for a football party two years ago and ate it straight from the bowl with a spoon before anyone even arrived. … Read more

Apples softening in a pan with butter and cinnamon, the whole kitchen smelling like a fall festival, when I realized I had zero plans for … Read more

The way the cream cheese icing sits on top of these cookies—thick, white, with a tiny bit of drag when you spread it—that’s the whole … Read more