Dumping a full can of pumpkin puree into the mixing bowl when the recipe clearly called for a half-cup — that’s where this cookie started. … Read more

“So, are these like, healthy?” my sister-in-law asked, eyeing the pan of swirled dough on my counter. She’d just watched me dump a full stick … Read more

I burned the caramel for this spiced caramel apple layer cake four times before I figured out what I was doing wrong. Not a little … Read more

The way the marshmallow stretches—thin, glossy, almost translucent before it snaps—that’s the whole reason I make these. Everything else is just getting out of the … Read more

I set the royal icing bowl down, the black dye still clinging to my fingertips like a guilty secret. The cat, our actual black cat … Read more