Dessert Recipes

It was 10:47 PM on a random Thursday in early October, and I had a very specific vision: Halloween candy scattered across a baking sheet, … Read more

The lady at the craft store register watched me load up on candy eyeballs and white melting wafers last October, and she didn’t say anything … Read more

I wasn’t trying to make a new recipe that day. Honestly, I was just trying to use up the half-gallon of apple cider sitting in … Read more

My roommate Jen asked me last year why I couldn’t just stir the cookie dough in one bowl instead of dirtying three. I stared at … Read more

I wasn’t expecting to find my new favorite dessert recipe in a hardware store. But there I was, killing time while my partner debated drill … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked between a dry cleaner and a vintage shop on the corner of Elm and 4th that made … Read more

I was at a tiny farmers’ market in Vermont, the kind where the only music is the wind through the apple trees, when a woman … Read more

I was standing in the middle of a hardware store last October, of all places, when the smell hit me. It wasn’t paint or sawdust … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a random Thursday, and I had an overwhelming need for something creamy, something apple-cinnamon-y, and something that didn’t require me … Read more

My neighbor Carol wasn’t trying to impress anyone that Tuesday afternoon. I’d stopped by to borrow a ladder—mine had mysteriously vanished after a garage sale—and … Read more