Dessert Recipes

It was 11:47 PM on a Wednesday in early September, and I had a sudden, almost desperate need to smell apples and cinnamon. The High … Read more

My friend Rachel asked why I couldn’t just use honey instead of sugar in my challah dough. I started to explain why that wouldn’t work … Read more

My neighbor, Mrs. Kowalski, watched me fumbling with a bag of sad-looking supermarket apples last October. I was grumbling about how none of my usual … Read more

I wasn’t supposed to be in her kitchen that Tuesday. I’d stopped by to borrow a ladder—ours had mysteriously vanished after a neighbor’s yard project—and … Read more

I was digging through the back of my pantry last Tuesday, looking for a jar of pickles I swore I had stashed away, when my … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Wednesday in October, and I was absolutely desperate for something that tasted like fall but didn’t require a … Read more

This was supposed to be a layered chocolate mousse cake for my neighbor’s backyard barbecue. I had the heavy cream chilling, the good chocolate chopped, … Read more

The woman at the farmers’ market stall watched me pick up and put down the same bag of pumpkins three times. I was trying to … Read more

I used to think skillet cookies were a gimmick. Honestly, I did. A friend brought one to a dinner party years ago, and I remember … Read more

You know that feeling when you walk into someone’s house and the smell just stops you in your tracks? That happened to me last Tuesday … Read more