Dessert Recipes

I had been looking for a banana bread recipe that actually stayed moist past day one. Not just fresh-out-of-the-oven moist, but the kind that still … Read more

The first three times I made brown butter chocolate chip cookies, they came out flat as pancakes. Not the good kind of flat either — … Read more

My niece showed up at my door at 7:30 PM the night before Halloween, costume half-zipped, holding a bag of almond flour and looking panicked. … Read more

By the fourth batch of these in a single weekend, I finally understood why the spiderweb kept cracking on me. It wasn’t the icing consistency—it … Read more

My neighbor’s kid, Leo, stared at the treat bag I handed him last Halloween and said, “This is the best one,” before even opening it. … Read more

I did not trust candy corn in anything but a glass bowl at the bottom of my grandmother’s coffee table. It was always the candy … Read more

I had this whole plan for a perfectly neat, elegantly decorated Halloween dessert. Something with precise piping and maybe some edible glitter. It took about … Read more

“This is the best thing I’ve eaten all week,” my husband said, scraping the last bit of oat crumble from his bowl. And honestly, that’s … Read more

The pie dish came back to the kitchen completely empty. Not a crumb left on the plate. My sister-in-law actually licked the spatula clean when … Read more

I burned the bottom of this cinnamon sugar apple fritter bread three times before I figured out the trick. Not the whole thing—just the bottom … Read more