Dessert Recipes

The Day of the Dead potluck at my daughter’s school was in two days and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing elaborate sugar … Read more

I ruined three batches of Halloween sugar cookies before I finally understood what I was doing wrong. Not the flavor—that was always fine. The shape. … Read more

I wasn’t trying to throw a Halloween party. Honestly, I was just trying to use up the three egg whites sitting in my fridge from … Read more

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from the quiet accountant who lives two doors down, but there I was, wrestling a tangled string of Halloween lights … Read more

My nephew, Leo, who is six and has never met a vegetable he didn’t suspect was a trap, looked at the cooling rack on my … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a random Tuesday in September, and I had a very specific, ridiculous craving for something that looked like a goth … Read more

The neighborhood Halloween party was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. I mean, completely. I’d RSVP’d yes — enthusiastically, even — and then gotten … Read more

I’d been staring at the bag of candy corn in my pantry for three weeks. Every time I opened the cabinet to grab a can … Read more

I was folding laundry last Tuesday—a stack of mismatched socks, the usual chaos—when a whiff of something warm and buttery drifted up from nowhere. It … Read more

“Mama, can we make the ghosts again?” — that’s what my youngest said the morning after Halloween last year, still sticky from the night before. … Read more