Dessert Recipes

The woman at the orchard stand watched me juggling a half-bushel of apples, a wriggling toddler on my hip, and a diaper bag that had … Read more

My neighbor, an older woman named Clara with a garden that seemed to defy the seasons, watched me fumbling with a bag of flour on … Read more

The neighborhood fall potluck was in three hours and I had completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing their signature dishes—the kind that take all … Read more

My neighbor wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to drop off a package that got delivered to my house by mistake, and the … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked inside a converted gas station on Route 9 that made the most incredible pumpkin banana muffins. When … Read more

I was standing in line at the hardware store last Tuesday, holding a bag of lightbulbs and a weirdly specific level of irritation, when the … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked behind a vintage bookstore in Portland called Tandem that made the most incredible brown butter pumpkin snickerdoodles. … Read more

My teenage daughter asked why I couldn’t just dump a can of pumpkin and some cinnamon roll dough in a baking dish and call it … Read more

There used to be this little bakery tucked behind the old train station in my town that made the most incredible apple cider cookies every … Read more

I was standing in line at the hardware store—of all places—holding a bag of lightbulbs and trying to remember if I needed more painter’s tape … Read more