Dessert Recipes

I wasn’t expecting baking advice from my plumber, but there I was, standing in my kitchen with a leaky pipe, listening to Frank explain exactly … Read more

My neighbor Carol asked me last week why I couldn’t just use a box of cream cheese instead of bothering with the block. I started … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Wednesday in October, and I had a problem. The kind of problem that only makes sense when you’ve … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple blueberry coffee cake. I had the recipe memorized—my go-to for when company was coming and I needed something … Read more

My aunt asked why I couldn’t just can the pears with a cinnamon stick instead of fussing with a complicated spiced syrup recipe I’d found … Read more

I was standing in the baking aisle of my local grocery store last August, staring at a box of pectin that cost almost as much … Read more

There used to be a little roadside diner off Highway 29 in South Carolina called The Peach Basket that made a cobbler so good it … Read more

My neighbor Marianne saw me staring at the mountain of zucchini on my counter last August and just laughed. She didn’t say a word at … Read more

My husband claimed he hated zucchini. For years. The man would pick it out of stir-fries with surgical precision, push it to the side of … Read more

My neighbor watched me struggling with a sad bunch of overripe bananas left forgotten on my kitchen counter and didn’t say anything at first. Then … Read more