Dessert Recipes

“I wasn’t even planning to bake that afternoon,” I remember thinking as I stepped into Jamie’s kitchen last October. She wasn’t making a big deal … Read more

“I’m not supposed to play favorites with recipes, but honestly, the first time I caught a whiff of these Tender Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Zucchini … Read more

Introduction Last summer, my friend Jesse asked why I couldn’t just skip baking and toss together a peach pie with cream cheese and a simple … Read more

This was supposed to be just another loaf of zucchini bread—plain, maybe a little too dense, nothing fancy. I grabbed the wrong lemons (the tiny … Read more

Introduction “You wouldn’t believe it, but my taxi driver neighbor started chatting about his secret recipe for fudgy double chocolate zucchini muffins,” I said to … Read more

“You’ve got to try this,” my neighbor said one late August afternoon while I was wrestling with a stubborn jar of peach preserves. She didn’t … Read more

“I never thought peaches deserved the hype,” my friend Mark said one humid July afternoon. He’d been dodging peach desserts for years, convinced they were … Read more

Introduction “Hand me that bowl,” my neighbor said, not looking up from the stove as the unmistakable aroma of browned butter and melting chocolate wafted … Read more

Introduction “The power went out halfway through last Saturday morning, and I was stuck in my kitchen with nothing but the soft hum of my … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple, straightforward banana bread. I grabbed what I thought were the usual ingredients — ripe bananas, sugar, flour — … Read more