Dessert Recipes

My partner stared at the loaf cooling on the counter, then looked at me, then back at the loaf, and quietly asked if I had … Read more

Third time this week and the kitchen still smells like a autumn orchard that caught fire in the best possible way. I stared at the … Read more

The plate was scraped clean. Not a single crumb of that vanilla-glazed crust remained. My brother-in-law, who usually complains about anything with more than two … Read more

I assumed making caramel from scratch required a candy thermometer and a steady hand. It took about ten minutes for that assumption to fall apart … Read more

I did not trust the idea of combining a dense cheesecake with a loose, crumbly crust until last October. Honestly, I thought the concept sounded … Read more

My brother-in-law, Dave, stood in my kitchen doorway with a half-eaten slice of store-bought pumpkin bread on a paper plate. He looked at the towering, … Read more

The oven light flickered out just as I was sliding the tray in, leaving me in total darkness with a timer ticking down. I had … Read more

It was 1998. The windows were fogged up from the humidity of boiling water, and the air smelled like wet leaves and brown sugar. I … Read more

The dense, pale ribbon of cheesecake cutting through the tender orange crumb is what matters here, and that’s the whole point. I used to think … Read more

For a while, I just accepted that pumpkin bagels weren’t going to taste like anything other than dry, cardboard-y disappointment. You know the type. You … Read more