Category Dessert Ideas

I can still remember the first time I made apple cider from scratch. It was one of those crisp autumn afternoons when the air smelled faintly of wood smoke, and I had a basket of apples sitting on the counter,…

There are a handful of recipes in my life that feel like comfort stitched into flour and sugar, and apple bread is one of them. My love for this loaf started when I was a young mother with more apples…

I’ll never forget the first time I tried a pumpkin spice latte. It wasn’t in a fancy café, but in my own small kitchen one brisk October morning. I had been determined to recreate that warm, spicy, comforting flavor I’d…

There are a handful of recipes that follow me through the seasons of my life, and this apple cake is one of them. I first baked it on a chilly October afternoon when my children were small and restless from…

The first caramel apple I ever made was a disaster. I was sixteen, armed with a bag of shiny Granny Smiths, a pack of store-bought caramels, and the kind of confidence only a teenager can have. I melted the candies…

When I think of autumn mornings, I think of pumpkin pancakes. I didn’t always, though. For years, pancakes in my kitchen were the plain kind—flour, eggs, milk, a drizzle of syrup on top. Comforting, yes, but never something I craved.…

The first time I made pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, it wasn’t because I had a plan—it was because I had a half-empty can of pumpkin puree sitting in the fridge and I couldn’t stand to waste it. I had just…

The smell of apple cinnamon bread will always remind me of a particular autumn years ago, when my children were still small enough to leave fingerprints on every window. I had gone apple picking with them on a crisp October…

I can still remember the first time I baked this pumpkin coffee cake—it was a rainy October afternoon, and I was supposed to be prepping for a family dinner. Instead, I found myself staring at a half-used can of pumpkin…

There are some recipes you fall into by accident, and others that become part of the rhythm of your year. These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are both, for me. I remember the first time I baked them—it was late October,…