This warming, tender, and flavorful apple crumble with oats is a great dessert for holidays, other special occasions, or really any night of the week! Maybe you’re looking for a cozy fall dessert, or maybe you’re too intimidated to make a complicated pie with homemade crust, whatever reason you have for wanting something simple and […]
There is a very short window every year when strawberries are the specific kind of ripe that makes them worth building a dessert around. Not the winter strawberries that are pale inside and taste like slightly sweet water. Not the ones that have been refrigerated so long they’ve lost whatever they were trying to be. […]
The dairy-free dessert has an image problem that it doesn’t deserve. The phrase conjures something diminished: a dessert that’s trying to be what it’s not, made with substitutes that approximate real ingredients without quite achieving them, eaten with the quiet resignation of someone who has accepted that good dessert is not for them. That version […]
Summer and dessert were made for each other in a way that no other season quite achieves. The heat creates the craving. The fruit is at its peak. The days are long enough that dessert can happen outside, which improves nearly every dessert by approximately forty percent through the simple mechanism of eating it in […]
There is something about jelly that operates on children at a frequency adults have mostly stopped picking up. It wobbles. It’s translucent. It comes in colors that have no equivalent in the natural world. You can see through it, which is genuinely remarkable if you’re four years old. And then it dissolves into something sweet […]
There is a specific set of requirements that party desserts have to meet in summer that desserts in other seasons do not. They have to survive heat without becoming a structural disaster. They have to be portable enough to travel in a car without arriving as an abstract expressionist version of what you made. They […]
You’ll love these dreamy orange creamsicle bars made with a buttery graham cracker crust and a silky orange-vanilla filling that tastes like summer in every single bite! Whether you’re looking for a refreshing potluck dessert or a nostalgic treat for a warm afternoon, these delightful citrus bars are it! There are a few childhood treats […]
There is a particular kind of panic that sets in when you agree to bring dessert for thirty people in July, realize too late that turning on the oven means heating your kitchen to an unholy temperature, and end up at the grocery store at 9pm buying sheet cake and lying about it. This list […]
This bright and buttery strawberry lemon pound cake is dense, moist, and packed with fresh berry flavor! It has a tender crumb and a zingy lemon glaze that makes every slice absolutely sing. Here is an effortlessly impressive dessert recipe that’s so great to have in your back pocket for your next garden party or […]
These peaches and cream crumble bars are the ultimate late-summer treat! They’re juicy, crunchy, and deeply comforting, with a creamy filling nestled inside a golden, cookie-like crust. Is anyone else trying to soak up every last bit of peach season before it’s gone? I’ve been filling my basket at the farmers market every weekend, and […]