Dessert Recipes

My sister called me a traitor. Not because I’d forgotten her birthday—which I had, briefly—but because I told her I was making a Neapolitan layer … Read more

“You know, this tastes like the inside of a cinnamon roll, but for toast.” My friend Jess said that halfway through a spoonful of my … Read more

The first Saturday of October, and the only thing I wanted was a batch of these easy Halloween mummy sugar cookies. Not the elaborate, fondant-covered … Read more

The first real chill of October hit, and I found myself standing in the middle of my kitchen with a half-gallon of fresh apple cider … Read more

My husband looked up from his coffee last Saturday morning and said, “These are the best things you’ve ever baked,” which is a pretty big … Read more

I did not trust a dump cake. There, I said it. The name alone felt like a confession of culinary laziness, and the concept—just dump … Read more

“Wait—these have cream cheese inside?” My sister-in-law Megan peered over my shoulder while I was piping filling onto a chilled disk of pumpkin cookie dough. … Read more

That first hit of cinnamon and nutmeg—the kind that wraps around you before you even step foot in the kitchen—still takes me straight to my … Read more

The way the knife slides through without resistance—that’s the moment. Not a crunch, not a crumble, but this clean, quiet surrender of chilled cream and … Read more

My husband took one bite of this cake, looked me dead in the eye, and said, “Don’t ever lose this recipe.” That was three weeks … Read more