Dessert Recipes

My neighbor watched me staring at my almost-empty pantry one Tuesday night. I had a serious cookie craving and maybe half a stick of butter … Read more

I was elbow-deep in soapy water last Tuesday evening—the kind of ordinary moment you forget five minutes later—when the scent hit me. It wasn’t from … Read more

This was supposed to be a batch of my go-to pumpkin bread, the one I’ve made a hundred times without even looking at the recipe. … Read more

My friend Jenna asked why I couldn’t just skip the chilling step for these cookies. I started to explain why that wouldn’t work — something … Read more

The neighborhood pumpkin-carving party was in three hours and I’d completely forgotten about the food sign-up. Everyone else would be bringing those elaborate Pinterest-worthy charcuterie … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery called The Gilded Spatula tucked into a converted garage in the East Village that made a pumpkin banana … Read more

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from my accountant, but there I was, sitting in his cluttered office during tax season, listening to him describe exactly … Read more

There used to be a little bakery tucked between a vintage bookstore and a dusty antiques shop on Main Street called “The Gingered Fig.” They … Read more

I wasn’t supposed to be there that long. I’d stopped by my neighbor Carol’s house to grab a book she’d borrowed months ago, a quick … Read more

The first time I made these salted caramel apple cider donuts, I was standing in my tiny kitchen on a rainy Tuesday afternoon, trying to … Read more