Dessert Recipes

The woman at the community garden stand watched me eyeing her pumpkin pile with a little too much intensity. I was trying to figure out … Read more

My neighbor had refused to touch anything pumpkin-flavored for as long as I’d known her. Three years, give or take. She’d scrunch her nose at … Read more

I wasn’t expecting baking advice from my accountant, but there I was, knee-deep in tax paperwork, listening to Mr. Henderson describe exactly how to make … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple batch of brownies for a Halloween party. I had the box mix, the eggs, the oil—the usual drill. … Read more

There used to be a tiny pumpkin patch café tucked behind a corn maze in the next town over that made the most incredible pumpkin … Read more

My aunt wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by her place on a random Tuesday night in February to drop off a book I’d … Read more

My sister had sworn off candy corn for a solid decade. Ten years. She’d make this face—you know the one—every time a bowl appeared at … Read more

Marta, the woman who runs the little spice shop on Elm Street, watched me squinting at her display of nutmeg one drizzly November afternoon. I … Read more

This was supposed to be a pecan pie. I had the pecans toasted, the corn syrup measured, and I was feeling pretty smug about my … Read more

I was standing in the spice aisle of a grocery store last December when it hit me—that sharp, warm smell of ginger and cloves coming … Read more