Dessert Recipes

I had claimed to hate pumpkin bread for about fifteen years. Fifteen years of wrinkling my nose at office potlucks, of politely declining slices thrust … Read more

I didn’t believe in pumpkin spice banana bread at first. Honestly, I thought it was one of those trendy flavor mashups that sounded better on … Read more

The first time I tried browning butter for cookies, I was convinced I’d ruined a perfectly good batch of dough. I stood there, staring at … Read more

Late on a Tuesday night, the kitchen counters were clean, the dishwasher was humming, and I was supposed to be winding down. But my youngest … Read more

The crackly, sugar-crusted top that gives way to a tender, impossibly moist crumb — that’s what I was after. Not the whole loaf, not the … Read more

I figured the best sweet potato casserole came from a holiday table, buried under marshmallows and tradition. It took about one Thanksgiving where I forgot … Read more

I completely ruined pumpkin pudding the first three times I tried to make it from scratch. The first batch was a grainy, lumpy disaster that … Read more

My nephew asked for these on a Tuesday afternoon in mid-October, three days after I’d made them for his class Halloween party. Not candy, not … Read more

I had been looking for a Halloween treat that actually tasted as good as it looked. You know the ones I mean—those store-bought mixes that … Read more

Third batch in three days and I finally stopped overworking the batter. The first dozen came out tough—respectable, sure, but dense in a way that … Read more