Dessert Recipes

The office holiday party was in twelve hours and I’d completely forgotten. I mean, completely. I was standing in my kitchen at 10 PM, staring … Read more

I was standing in line at the DMV—a place I associate with nothing good—when the woman behind me started talking about blondies. Not just any … Read more

My brother-in-law Mark had claimed to hate pumpkin for thirty-seven years. Thirty-seven years of wrinkling his nose at pumpkin bread, pushing pumpkin pie around his … Read more

My sister asked why I couldn’t just use less butter and skip the sugar in the topping. I was in the middle of explaining that … Read more

My neighbor Carol wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a pie plate—mine had mysteriously vanished after last Thanksgiving—and the smell of … Read more

I was standing in the baking aisle of our local grocery store last October, staring at a bag of marshmallows, when the smell hit me. … Read more

I was standing in the grocery store aisle last October, staring at a bag of candy eyeballs, when the smell of burnt sugar hit me … Read more

I used to think caramel apples were overrated. Honestly, for years I avoided them at fall festivals and Halloween parties, watching people bite into them … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked behind a laundromat on Clement Street in San Francisco called “The Gilded Crumb” that made a banana … Read more

My neighbor Kate wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to grab a book she was lending me, and the smell of chocolate and … Read more