Dessert Recipes

There used to be a little bakery tucked away on a side street in Portland, called “Meringue.” It had a pink awning and a bell … Read more

My niece Clara asked me last Thanksgiving why I couldn’t just skip the oven and let the cheesecake set in the fridge instead. I started … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple tray of fudgy brownies for a cookie swap. I had my recipe memorized, my butter softening on the … Read more

My neighbor, an older woman named Rose, watched me wrestling with a towering stack of holiday baking magazines at the library last November. I was … Read more

Let me tell you something funny. My husband swore he hated pecan pie. For years. Like, a solid decade of turning up his nose at … Read more

My husband swore he hated gingerbread cookies. For years. Every December, I’d watch him pass the platter at holiday parties, eyeing the little men with … Read more

This was supposed to be a pumpkin bread. I had the can of pumpkin open, the brown butter cooling on the counter, and a whole … Read more

This was supposed to be a batch of simple, elegant snowflake cookies. You know, the kind that look like they belong on a magazine cover. … Read more

My partner asked why I couldn’t just use the same bowl for the whole banana bread. I started to explain why that wouldn’t work — … Read more

Linda wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by her place to drop off a casserole dish she’d loaned me, and the smell of toasted … Read more