Dessert Recipes

My neighbor wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a ladder—our fence had taken a beating in the wind the night before—and … Read more

I was standing in line at a tiny hardware store in upstate New York—waiting to buy a new showerhead, of all things—when the woman behind … Read more

My neighbor asked me last week why I couldn’t just dump everything in one pan and bake it. I had been showing her how to … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a random Tuesday, and a very specific craving hit. Not for the usual chocolate chip cookie or a bowl of … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple pumpkin loaf. I had it all planned out—a classic, moist, spiced loaf that I could slice up for … Read more

My brother-in-law, Mark, had claimed to hate banana bread for over a decade. “It’s just baby food in a loaf pan,” he’d say every single … Read more

I was digging through my pantry last Tuesday, looking for a bag of chocolate chips I swore I bought, when the smell of cinnamon hit … Read more

The woman at the community garden plot next to mine watched me struggle with a wobbly table and a bowl of pumpkin puree that was … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked behind a laundromat on the west side of town called “The Gilded Crumb” that made a pumpkin … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked behind a vintage bookstore in Beacon, New York, that made a cinnamon apple cider bundt cake that … Read more