Dessert Recipes

Three years ago, I was trying to salvage a batch of muffins that had completely collapsed in the center. They looked like sad, deflated pancakes … Read more

This was supposed to be banana bread. I mean, that was the plan. I had three sad, spotty bananas sitting on my counter, the butter … Read more

There used to be a roadside diner called The Golden Spoon that sat right off the interstate in rural Ohio that made pumpkin dump cake. … Read more

My neighbor, Mrs. Gable, wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a cup of sugar for a disaster I’d created in my … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked behind a laundromat on the corner of Elm and 4th that made the most incredible banana bread. … Read more

My sister asked why I couldn’t just use canned cinnamon rolls for the monkey bread I was painstakingly assembling from scratch. I started to explain … Read more

I was standing in the canned goods aisle last October, staring at a stack of pumpkin puree cans, when the smell hit me. It wasn’t … Read more

I was elbow-deep in a box of vintage Christmas ornaments at a dusty estate sale when the plumber—the one who’d been hired to fix the … Read more

This was supposed to be a batch of banana muffins. I had the bananas perfectly ripe—speckled and sweet—the flour measured, the butter softening on the … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked inside a gas station off Highway 49 that made a peanut butter poke cake so good it … Read more