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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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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.

Salty Lemon Shortbread

These tart, salty, buttery cookies are an any-occasion dessert for me. Excellent with coffee or tea, a delightful addition a holiday cookie tin, or a nice way to end a big meal.

Hot Buttered Rum Pudding

If you’re looking for a great, unexpected, dare I say sexy dessert for your next dinner party, here it is folks. It’s a nice wintery dessert, especially when served with a post-meal amaro.

Toasted Rice Pudding

Rice pudding fans, this one’s for you. It’s creamy, nutty, and best served chilled, making it an excellent do-ahead dessert for your next dinner party.

Old-Fashioned Strawberry Cake

This is the time of year for the juiciest, sweetest strawberries, and there’s no better application than this easy, delicious cake.

Mint Chip Ice Cream Cake

This ice cream cake is nostalgic, delightful, and what everyone wants for their birthday.

All-Purpose Chocolate Sheet Cake

This chocolate cake really stands up on its own with a vanilla buttercream frosting—simple and classic.

Simple Fruit Tart

If you’re looking for a way to use your summer fruit bounty, I love this basic, elegant, classy tart. It’s reserved and restrained, it’s prim and proper, it’s creamy and delicious.