Dessert Recipes

Easy Pumpkin Dump Cake with Yellow Cake Mix The pan came out of the oven and the whole kitchen just stopped. My roommate, who had … Read more

The third time I made this apple dapple cake in the same week, I finally stopped adding extra caramel halfway through baking. That first attempt—a … Read more

The thing about apple crisp for two—it’s supposed to be a simple, no-fuss dessert. I figured one apple, a handful of oats, a little butter, … Read more

My first batch of pumpkin snickerdoodles was, honestly, a disaster. The cookies spread into flat, greasy puddles that tasted more like baking soda than pumpkin … Read more

The first time I made a sheet cake from a box mix, I was nineteen, living in a shoebox apartment, and convinced I was saving … Read more

“Wait, you browned the butter?” My neighbor Jen leaned over my kitchen counter, peering at the bowl of cookie dough like I’d just announced I … Read more

“This is the best cake I’ve ever had,” my neighbor said, scraping her fork across the plate to catch the last bit of caramel. And … Read more

The bag of candy eyes I bought last October was still sitting in my baking drawer. I found them while looking for vanilla extract, and … Read more

My nephew took one bite, stopped mid-chew, and looked at me with the kind of serious expression only a seven-year-old can pull off. “Auntie,” he … Read more

It wasn’t the smell of cinnamon and apples filling the kitchen—though that was good. It wasn’t the buttery shortbread crust, or the creamy swirl of … Read more