Dessert Recipes

My neighbor across the hall, a guy named Leo who I’d only ever seen in a suit, asked why I couldn’t just melt chocolate in … Read more

I had claimed to hate zucchini bread for about a decade. Honestly, I was pretty smug about it. Every time someone would wax poetic about … Read more

My neighbor, Mrs. Kowalski, watched me trying to wrestle a sticky glob of melted marshmallow off my countertop last October, and she didn’t say anything … Read more

My neighbor Donna wasn’t making a big deal of it. I’d stopped by to drop off her mail that got delivered to my house by … Read more

This was supposed to be a batch of perfectly piped French macarons. I had the almond flour sifted, the egg whites aging on the counter … Read more

I was standing in the baking aisle of our local grocery store last Tuesday, staring at a box of Oreos like it held the secrets … Read more

The Halloween potluck was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing those elaborate cake pops that look like eyeballs, or … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked inside a vintage market in my old neighborhood that made the most incredible candy corn sugar cookie … Read more

My husband had claimed for years that he hated candy corn. Years. Every October, when those little orange and yellow triangles started showing up in … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked behind a vintage bookstore in Portland called “The Night Owl.” They made a chocolate chip cookie around … Read more