Dessert Recipes

October wind rattles the windowpane, and the only thing I want is crispy caramel apple slices with candy. It is a specific craving that hits … Read more

I figured layering chocolate pudding with crushed cookies would look like a disaster waiting to happen. It took about five minutes for that assumption to … Read more

By the fourth time I made these crispy ghost meringue cookies this week, I had a genuine fear that my oven was judging me. Honestly, … Read more

My husband walked in the door with three strangers and a box of candy corn. It was 4:30 PM on a Tuesday, and the house … Read more

“You have to draw the whiskers before they dry, or you’re just stuck with a plain black blob.” — and that was it. I was … Read more

I was staring at three overripe bananas that had gone from “slightly spotted” to “black and mushy” in a matter of hours. The power was … Read more

I was twenty-one, living on a diet of instant noodles and hope, when I first realized that baking wasn’t just for people with fancy stand … Read more

My nephew, usually a kid who only eats things that are brown or covered in ketchup, stood in front of the counter holding a square … Read more

I set a simple no-bake dessert on fire. Okay, not the dessert itself, but the oven timer light that I stared at for twenty minutes … Read more

My niece stared at the plate, her eyes wide behind her oversized witch hat, convinced she was looking at a trick of the light. She … Read more