Dessert Recipes

I want brown butter banana bread with walnuts right now. Not later. Not after I run to the store for something I forgot. Right now. … Read more

My husband had refused to eat a three-flavor cake for years. Fifteen years, if we’re being honest. “Too much going on,” he’d say whenever I’d … Read more

Late February, and the rain is tapping against the kitchen window in a rhythm that feels almost lazy. I’d bought a pint of strawberries at … Read more

The fall baking swap was in three hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing those perfectly frosted layer cakes, intricate pies with … Read more

I was packing up the last of the Valentine’s Day treats for my daughter’s class party when my neighbor texted. “Please tell me you have … Read more

The snap. That first clean, sharp crack of peppermint bark breaking under my thumb — it’s a sound I know by heart. It takes me … Read more

My daughter came home from a holiday market last December holding a single round chocolate ball wrapped in cellophane. She handed it over like it … Read more

My sister-in-law showed up at my door with a bottle of peppermint mocha creamer and a bar of dark chocolate, announcing she’d “forgotten” to buy … Read more

Third batch in two weeks, and I finally stopped adding extra ginger. That was the thing holding it back, I think—the constant second-guessing. I’d taste … Read more

I was standing in the checkout line at the grocery store last October, utterly exhausted after a day of wrangling two sugared-up kids through a … Read more