Dessert Recipes

This was supposed to be a pumpkin pie. Plain old, classic, everyone-loves-it pumpkin pie. I had the evaporated milk out, the eggs cracked, the single … Read more

The church bake sale was in twelve hours and I’d completely forgotten. My phone buzzed with a reminder text from my neighbor, Linda, at nine … Read more

Last October, I was at the community garden harvest swap, a little overwhelmed by the pile of butternut squash someone had just handed me. An … Read more

My sister swore she hated cooked apples. For years. Like, a solid decade of wrinkling her nose at apple pie, avoiding apple crisp at family … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Wednesday, and I needed something sweet. Not just any sweet—the kind of sweet that comes with warm fruit … Read more

I was supposed to be making pumpkin bread. The kind you slice up for breakfast, the kind that disappears before lunch. That was the plan. … Read more

There used to be a tiny coffee shop tucked into a converted garage in my neighborhood that made the most ridiculous pumpkin cheesecake bar I … Read more

Maggie wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to drop off a casserole dish she’d lent me weeks ago, and the smell hit me … Read more

I was standing in a parking lot last October, fumbling for my keys after a grocery run, when a gust of wind carried the unmistakable … Read more

I was getting my oil changed last October—waiting room coffee in hand, flipping through a magazine from 2019—when the mechanic, a guy named Carl with … Read more