Dessert Recipes

By the fourth time I made this creamy pumpkin pie cheesecake with pecan crumble in a single week, I started wondering if I had a … Read more

I figured a no-bake pumpkin pie would be a compromise—something you make when you want the flavor but can’t be bothered with the real thing. … Read more

My phone buzzed with a photo of a half-eaten cookie shaped like a ghost, its little icing face smeared across a napkin. The text just … Read more

It was late October, around 10 PM, and the only thing I wanted was something dark, chocolatey, and just a little bit spooky. My kitchen … Read more

I ruined birthday cake for my own kid three years in a row before I figured out what I was doing wrong. Not the flavor—that … Read more

There was a stretch of autumns where I just accepted that apple bread was going to taste like, well, bread with apples in it. Not … Read more

The way the syrup catches the light through the glass — that deep, honeyed amber with little flecks of cinnamon suspended like tiny rust-colored stars … Read more

I burned the first batch of pumpkin snickerdoodles so badly my smoke alarm has never quite recovered. It was 2018, I was trying to impress … Read more

My husband took a bite of these pumpkin cinnamon rolls, stopped chewing, and just looked at me. Not a word. Then he took another bite, … Read more

Third time in two weeks and I finally stopped overthinking the blue layer. The first batch of my Red White and Blue Layered Labor Day … Read more