Dessert Recipes

I was standing in line at the post office, holding a package that was definitely taped together one too many times, when the woman behind … Read more

The fall festival bake-off was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing those elaborate, multi-layered cakes that look like they … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a random Wednesday in early October, and I had a very specific, slightly unhinged craving for something that tasted like … Read more

My nephew Leo asked why I couldn’t just use black cookie dough instead of frosting the cookies afterward. I started to explain why that wouldn’t … Read more

Claire wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by her place that Saturday afternoon to borrow a cake pan—mine had mysteriously vanished after a potluck—and … Read more

I was at a hardware store, of all places, waiting for a key to be copied, when the woman behind the counter—a grandmotherly type with … Read more

The woman who runs the corner market near my apartment watched me staring at a carton of eggnog last November like it was a foreign … Read more

There used to be a little bakery tucked inside a vintage bookstore in my town—the kind of place where the floorboards creaked and the air … Read more

I was folding laundry last Tuesday—a mindless, gray- afternoon chore—when the smell of nutmeg hit me. Not from my kitchen. It was coming from the … Read more

My aunt wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to pick up a casserole dish she’d borrowed and the smell of brown sugar and … Read more