Category Deserts

I love monster cookies but I don’t love standing at the mixer scooping out forty individual balls of dough. This is the bar version — same peanut butter-oat base, same…

I used to make a full round pumpkin cheesecake every year, springform pan and all, and the water bath leaks and the finicky release always made me dread it a…

I wanted a brownie that didn’t taste like a Halloween prop — most spiderweb brownies I’d had before were dry enough to double as a coaster. This one starts from…

I made these the night before my kid’s class party because I forgot it was a “bring a treat” week until 9pm. Fifteen minutes later I had six cups of…

I burned the first batch of cider reduction I ever made for these. Walked away for four minutes to answer the door and came back to a pan of what…

The first time I made this, I dumped the caramel syrup in at the start along with everything else, and by hour four it had scorched a thin skin along…

I made this the first time because I needed something for a Halloween party that didn’t require an oven timer and a prayer. Popcorn mix is forgiving. You melt, you…

I made a version of these with regular sprinkles about a week before Halloween last year, purely because I forgot to buy the orange-and-black ones at the store. Nobody noticed.…

The first batch of Muddy Buddies I ever shook together ended up half-coated, with a sad pile of bare Chex sitting at the bottom of the bowl. I hadn’t put…

I made this the first time because my oven was full of something else and I still needed a snack for a football watch party in under three hours. Turns…