Dessert Recipes

It was 11:47 PM on a random Wednesday in late October, and I had a ridiculous, almost aggressive craving for tres leches cake. The kind … Read more

The woman at the spice shop watched me eyeing a package of Biscoff cookies for the third time that month. She didn’t say anything at … Read more

My roommate asked why I couldn’t just brown the butter in the same bowl I was going to mix the dough in. I started to … Read more

My husband swore he hated banana bread. For years. The whole eight years we’ve been married, actually. He’d make this face whenever I mentioned it—you … Read more

My neighbor, a retired baker named Frank, asked me last Tuesday why I couldn’t just use a can of frozen apple juice concentrate instead of … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a rainy Tuesday, and I had an aggressive hankering for a soft, pillowy cookie. Not the crisp kind that shatters … Read more

There used to be a tiny, wood-paneled restaurant tucked off a back road in Vermont called The Rustic Nook that made a maple bourbon pecan … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a random Tuesday in October, and I had a specific, almost desperate craving for something crunchy and sweet. The kids … Read more

The plumber was fixing the garbage disposal—a job I had put off for three weeks, honestly—when he started talking about pumpkin bread. Not the usual … Read more

My neighbor, a guy named Leo who fixes motorcycles for a living, asked me why I couldn’t just brown the butter in the same pan … Read more