Dessert Recipes

Let me tell you about the time I learned a lesson I didn’t know I needed. My neighbor, a retired baker named Carol, asked me … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked between a dry cleaner and a used bookstore on the corner of Elm and 4th that made … Read more

The fall bake sale was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. I mean, I’d been so busy with work and the kids that the … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a drizzly Tuesday in early October, and a very specific, almost aggressive craving for a warm, spiced donut hit me. … Read more

My nephew asked why I couldn’t just use a piping bag with a grass tip instead of painstakingly tinting shredded coconut green. I started to … Read more

There used to be a little bakery tucked behind the hardware store on Main Street that made the most perfect strawberry shortcakes. When they closed—just … Read more

I wasn’t planning on making a Fourth of July dessert at all. I was actually at my local hardware store, of all places, buying a … Read more

There used to be a tiny campground diner up on Lake George Road that made a s’mores skillet brownie that I still think about at … Read more

My neighbor, a retired baker named Frank, watched me struggle with a wobbly, sunken loaf of banana bread through his kitchen window. He didn’t say … Read more

I was elbow-deep in potting soil last September, repotting a particularly stubborn snake plant, when my accountant neighbor, Mrs. Gable, called over the fence. “You’re … Read more