Dessert Recipes

I was standing in the baking aisle of my local grocery store last October, staring blankly at a display of pumpkin puree, when the smell … Read more

Perfect Brown Butter Pumpkin Muffins: Easy Fall Recipe Introduction The neighborhood fall bake-off was in three days and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be … Read more

My neighbor asked why I couldn’t just skip the chilling step and bake the dough right away. I started to explain why that wouldn’t work … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple batch of chocolate crinkle cookies. You know the ones—those classic powdered sugar-dusted cookies that show up on every … Read more

My neighbor Carmen wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to return her tupperware container—the one she’d sent me home with after a block … Read more

I was digging through the back of my pantry last Tuesday—looking for a bag of chocolate chips I swore I’d bought—when my fingers brushed against … Read more

I wasn’t expecting chocolate cake advice from my accountant, but there I was, sitting in his cramped office during tax season, watching him pull a … Read more

My brother had claimed to hate pumpkin seeds for as long as I could remember. Every October, when the carving knife came out and the … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Tuesday in October, and I had this sudden, fierce craving for the soft, orange-scented pan de muerto my … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked behind the old bookstore on Elm Street in my town, a place called The Gilded Crumb, that … Read more