Dessert Recipes

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked between a laundromat and a dusty antique shop on Main Street in my old neighborhood. It was … Read more

My sister-in-law wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to return a slow cooker I’d borrowed three months earlier, and the smell of white … Read more

I was standing in line at the DMV—a place I’d normally rather set on fire than linger in—when the woman ahead of me turned around … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple, humble loaf of banana bread. I had three sad, spotty bananas on the counter, a half-used stick of … Read more

I was standing in the baking aisle of my local grocery store last October, staring at a display of canned pumpkin like it held the … Read more

This was supposed to be a pecan pie. A classic, straightforward, holiday-table pecan pie. I’d had the recipe memorized for years—the corn syrup, the brown … Read more

It was the third Tuesday of November, and I was staring at a box of Hachiya persimmons that my neighbor, Mrs. Chen, had left on … Read more

I was standing in the middle of a dusty antique mall in Paducah last fall, holding a chipped Pyrex measuring cup that had no business … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked between a laundromat and a dusty antiques shop on the corner of 4th and Elm that made … Read more

I was supposed to be making a pumpkin roll. You know, that classic, perfectly swirled dessert everyone fawns over at holiday gatherings? I had the … Read more