Dessert Recipes

Meredith wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by her place to pick up a book I’d lent her months ago, and the smell hit … Read more

I was standing in the middle of the grocery store parking lot last October, fumbling for my keys in a bag that had somehow become … Read more

My neighbor Sarah asked why I couldn’t just use a mini muffin tin instead of a springform pan for individual cheesecakes. I started to explain … Read more

The neighborhood cookie swap was in twelve hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing their grandmother’s legendary seven-layer bars or some fussy … Read more

My daughter’s best friend, Maya, was over last October, and we were knee-deep in glitter glue and orange construction paper, trying to make a Halloween … Read more

Introduction I swore I hated apple desserts. For years. The whole category felt like a betrayal of a perfectly good piece of fruit—mushy, overly spiced, … Read more

I met Clara at the community garden plot we shared for two summers. She was in her seventies, growing tomatoes on the side of a … Read more

I was standing in the baking aisle of a grocery store last October, staring at a display of orange sprinkles and candy eyeballs, when this … Read more

The office cookie swap was in two days and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing their grandmother’s legendary seven-layer bars or those intricate … Read more

I was sorting through a box of old cookbooks at a library book sale last December when the woman running the checkout counter—a no-nonsense retiree … Read more