Dessert Recipes

There used to be a little bakery three blocks from my old apartment in Portland that made the most incredible pumpkin desserts. They called them … Read more

The woman at the craft store checkout watched me stare at a bag of candy eyeballs like they held the secrets of the universe. I … Read more

I used to think pumpkin and snickerdoodles had no business being in the same sentence. Three autumns ago, I stood in my tiny kitchen holding … Read more

The power went out halfway through an unusually chilly October evening, and there I was, with nothing but the soft glow of candlelight and a … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a random Wednesday in late September, and I had an overwhelming urge to bake something that looked both sinister and … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery called “The Gilded Crumb” tucked inside a dusty old bookstore on Main Street that made a pumpkin banana … Read more

My neighbor wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a ladder — ours had mysteriously vanished after the garage sale — and … Read more

Last October, my friend Jenna asked why I couldn’t just fold cold cream cheese into the batter instead of going through the whole softening-and-chilling dance. … Read more

I was at my local hardware store last Tuesday, of all places, waiting for a key to be copied. The guy behind the counter, Dave, … Read more

I was standing in line at the hardware store last October, holding a bag of lightbulbs and feeling completely over my head with my son’s … Read more