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Dessert

Don’t feel hemmed in by the phrase “dessert”-- these are sweet things that can be served any time you want. After dinner, “mid-day snack,” and occasionally, breakfast.

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Buttered Oat Cake with Summer Fruits

Makes one 9" cake This is a cake meant to be eaten over the course of many warm summer days, sliced off in thick or thin pieces, either slathered with softened butter or on top of a napkin while standing in your kitchen in a bathing suit. It’s

Lemony Turmeric Tea Cake

This cake is so good and so simple to put together, you might come to call it “house cake,” which is, of course, cake to keep in your house at all times.

A Bowl of Salted Chocolate Pudding

Not unlike my vanilla pudding, this salted chocolate pudding should be left alone, simply celebrated for what it is, which is a bowl of melted chocolate made spoonable and consumable by a LOT of dairy.

Gingersnap Pumpkin Pie

The custardy filling melting slightly into the spiced cookie crust, softening where the two meet, giving way to a crunchy bottom layer — three glorious textures in one spectacular pie.

Cornbread

If you believe cornbread, like any other quick-bread-type delicacy, should have just enough sugar to balance out the salt, baked in whatever the hell you have on hand, then I think you’re going to absolutely love it.

Extra Coconut Cake

Coconut cakes are, by definition, extra. They should be tall and fuzzy like an obnoxious angora sweater. Part of the charm of the coconut cake is in the layering—I’m a big fan of slicing each layer of cake horizontally to expose the inside, which then gets covered in frosting.

Luckiest Biscuits in America

Biscuit making is a practice, a recipe you begin to feel rather than follow. They’ll only get better every time you make them

Stovetop Jam

While jam often feels like sugar thickened with fruit, this here is a celebration of the fruit itself.

Cold Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

This carrot cake, sans raisins and nuts (!!) is, to me, perfect. It’s perfect at room temperature, too, but refrigerating it gives it a dense, custardy, almost fudge-like texture that screams “mid-day snack.”

Caramelized Maple Tart

For anyone out there who wished you liked pumpkin pie but just don’t, meet your new favorite Thanksgiving dessert. If you’re a novice baker, this is one of the easiest desserts you could make (and for the overachievers, this is a great make-ahead).

Whole Wheat Pie Crust

While stone fruit and berry galettes do play well in this type of environment, my favorite application for whole wheat/whole grains is for savory galettes and quiches.

Sweet Enough Scones

These fluffy, buttery, juicy scones are a nice way to use summer berries, and are very cute on the breakfast table.