Dessert Recipes

This was supposed to be a proper layer cake. I had it all planned out—three tiers of red velvet with cream cheese frosting, the kind … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a drizzly Tuesday in October, and I had a very specific, almost aggressive craving for pumpkin pie. Not just any … Read more

My neighbor across the hall, an eighty-year-old woman named Evelyn who still wears pearls to take out her trash, asked me why I couldn’t just … Read more

I was standing in line at the DMV—a place that feels like the waiting room of purgatory—when the man behind the counter started talking about … Read more

My neighbor, Mrs. Gable, watched me struggling to fit a giant bag of flour into my already-overflowing pantry cabinet and didn’t say anything at first. … Read more

My neighbor Jen asked me why I couldn’t just use Greek yogurt instead of cream cheese in the cheesecake layer. I started to explain why … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a rainy Tuesday in November, and I had a sudden, almost unreasonable craving for eggnog. Not the stuff in the … Read more

I was standing in my neighbor Margie’s kitchen last fall, watching her pull a pan of golden-brown bars out of the oven. The smell was … Read more

The office holiday potluck was in eight hours and I’d completely forgotten. I mean, who does that? Everyone else would be bringing those elaborate, multi-day … Read more

I was standing in the spice aisle of my local grocery store last Tuesday when a jar of ground ginger slipped from my hand and … Read more