Dessert Recipes

There used to be a tiny, windowless bakery called “The Daily Crumb” tucked into the basement of an old brick building on 4th Street. When … Read more

The office holiday potluck was in forty-five minutes and I had completely forgotten. I was standing in my kitchen, staring at a bowl of flour … Read more

My nephew Leo asked why I couldn’t just toss the pumpkin puree into the dough and skip the browning step. I started to explain why … Read more

I didn’t have chocolate chips. I didn’t even have flour, technically, because the bag had a hole in the bottom and I hadn’t noticed until … Read more

The power went out halfway through what was supposed to be my annual pumpkin spice preparation. It was a Tuesday in late October, the kind … Read more

My neighbor, Mrs. Gable, watched me attempt to fold the cream cheese into the batter and didn’t say anything at first. Then she gently tapped … Read more

I was standing in my neighbor Carol’s driveway last October, helping her load pumpkins into the back of her ancient station wagon, when a gust … Read more

My neighbor, an older woman named Evelyn, watched me struggle with a too-ripe bunch of bananas on my front stoop one Tuesday afternoon. I was … Read more

I was standing in the parking lot of a hardware store last October when it hit me — that specific smell of cinnamon, nutmeg, and … Read more

I wasn’t expecting to find my new favorite Halloween recipe in the middle of a hardware store, but there I was, last October, waiting for … Read more