Dessert Recipes

My neighbor, an older woman named Rosa, watched me struggling to carry a too-heavy pumpkin from the farmer’s market one Saturday morning. She didn’t say … Read more

My husband had claimed to hate pumpkin desserts for eleven years. Eleven. He’d make a face at the pumpkin pie every Thanksgiving, push the pumpkin … Read more

I was standing in the frozen foods aisle last Tuesday, just trying to grab a bag of peas, when the air from the freezer case … Read more

The neighborhood fall bake-off was in twelve hours and I had completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing elaborate multi-layered cakes with fondant leaves and … Read more

There used to be this tiny bakery tucked between a laundromat and a thrift store on Grand Avenue that made the most incredible apple crisp. … Read more

I was standing in the baking aisle of our local grocery store last October, staring at a bag of candy eyeballs like they held the … Read more

Halloween was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing elaborately decorated cakes, themed cupcakes with perfect piped frosting, and those … Read more

There used to be a tiny, candlelit café tucked away on a side street in Portland called “The Velvet Fang.” It was the kind of … Read more

I was standing in line at the hardware store—of all places—holding a new showerhead and wondering why the woman ahead of me had three bags … Read more

This was supposed to be a batch of classic snickerdoodles. You know, the kind your grandma made, rolled in cinnamon sugar, soft in the middle. … Read more