Dessert Recipes

I want brown butter pumpkin snickerdoodle cookies right now, and I have everything except the patience to wait for butter to cool. That is the … Read more

The tender crumb giving way, the warmth of pumpkin and spice blooming on your tongue — that’s the whole point. I made these easy baked … Read more

By the fourth loaf in six days, I finally stopped overmixing. That was the thing, you see. I kept chasing this vision of a perfectly … Read more

I figured pumpkin cream cheese muffins were just regular muffins with a blob of cream cheese dropped in the middle. It took about one batch … Read more

The pumpkin puree was open. Half a can, staring at me from the fridge shelf, and I had exactly one overly ripe banana on the … Read more

The first time I made these, I was honestly trying to get my kids to eat an apple without complaining. It was one of those … Read more

My husband swore he hated chocolate chip cookies. For five years of marriage, he’d politely decline every batch I made, claiming they were “too sweet” … Read more

The neighborhood cookie swap was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing those elaborate, multi-day preparations—you know the type. Hand-piped … Read more

My niece asked why I couldn’t just use black cocoa powder instead of regular cocoa and then add food coloring. I started to explain why … Read more

This was supposed to be banana bread. I had three sad, spotty bananas sitting on my counter last October, and I was determined to finally … Read more