The Memory Behind This Treat The very first time I baked this Apple Spice Cake with Brown Sugar Icing , it was one of those gray, drizzly afternoons when the whole house felt a little too quiet. I’d just come
The Memory Behind This Treat The first time I made a filled cupcake , it was purely out of self-defense. I’d promised to bring “something special” to my niece’s school bake sale, then promptly forgot until the night before. All
The Memory Behind This Treat The first time I made this Caramel Toffee Crunch Cheesecake , I was trying to impress my very practical, very dessert-skeptical dad. He loves “plain” cheesecake and insists anything more is “unnecessary decoration.” So I
The Memory Behind This Treat The very first time I tested these Red Velvet Brownie Bites , I wasn’t trying to develop a recipe at all—I was trying to save a broken one. I had a pan of slightly overbaked
The Memory Behind This Treat The very first time I made Mascarpone Frosting , it wasn’t for a birthday cake or a big celebration. It was for a quiet Sunday afternoon when my mom came over with a box of
The Memory Behind This Treat The very first time I tested this Mint Chocolate Cheesecake , it was December, my kitchen was a mess of ribbon and tape, and I was “in charge of bringing something chocolate but not too
The Memory Behind This Treat The very first time I made this Easter Trifle Dessert , I was standing in my mom’s small kitchen with food coloring stains on my fingers and a 5-year-old “assistant” sneaking cake scraps off the
The Memory Behind This Treat The very first time I made these Easter Egg Oreo Cookie Balls , it was less about perfection and more about keeping little hands busy on a very rainy Easter weekend. I had my nieces
The Memory Behind This Treat The very first batch of these Banana Pudding Easter Truffles started as a rescue mission for a broken dessert. I had planned a big banana pudding trifle for Easter, complete with billowy whipped cream and
The Memory Behind This Treat The first time I made these St. Patrick’s Day Gnome Cookies , it was pure chaos in the sweetest way. My nieces were over, my kitchen table was covered in bowls of royal icing, and
