Dessert Recipes

The heat had been hanging around for three days straight, the kind of sticky July weather that makes you reconsider turning on the oven for … Read more

It was late July, and the farmers’ market had just dumped a mountain of peaches into my canvas bag—the kind so ripe you could smell … Read more

I want peach jam right now. Not in three hours after the water bath canner finishes its thing. Not tomorrow when the jars have sealed. … Read more

Third time in six days and I finally stopped over-mixing the batter. That first batch came out tough—fine for snacking but not the tender, fudgy … Read more

Late August, and the kitchen counter is drowning in zucchini. Two of them, actually, from my neighbor’s garden that she practically begs people to take. … Read more

My neighbor, a retired baker named Margie, took one bite of this brown sugar peach cobbler and just sat there, fork suspended mid-air, staring at … Read more

Introduction It was 11:17 PM on a dull Wednesday, and the urge for something warm and sweet hit me like a lightning bolt. I didn’t … Read more

The neighborhood block party was in less than two hours and I’d completely forgotten about bringing a dessert. Everyone else would be showing up with … Read more

The other day, I was pushing my cart down the grocery store aisle when the faint scent of fresh watermelon — that unmistakable, slightly grassy … Read more

Last Saturday, I wasn’t planning on baking anything special. I’d popped over to my neighbor Janice’s place to borrow some sugar—yes, the kind of casual … Read more