Dessert Recipes

There used to be a little ice cream shop on the corner of Elm and 4th in my old neighborhood that made a chocolate ice … Read more

I wasn’t expecting to get a baking lesson from the guy installing my new dishwasher, but there I was, standing in my own kitchen, a … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked between a dry cleaner and a laundromat on the corner of 7th and Maple that made the … Read more

Carrie wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by her house to grab a Tupperware I’d left at a barbecue the weekend before, and the … Read more

This was supposed to be a batch of classic sugar cookies. I had the butter softening on the counter, the sprinkles ready to go, and … Read more

I was standing in line at the post office—a Tuesday, I think, during that weird gray hour between lunch and when the day actually starts … Read more

My nephew asked why I couldn’t just use the mixer to cream the butter and sugar together for peanut butter cookies. I started to explain … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a drizzly Tuesday in early April, and all I wanted was something that tasted like the sun hadn’t abandoned us … Read more

I was standing in the checkout line at the hardware store—of all places—when the woman behind me peered into my cart and laughed. “You’re planning … Read more

Introduction: The Skeptic’s Conversion My neighbor, a woman named Carol who has strong opinions about most things, had claimed to hate spritz cookies for nearly … Read more