Easy Sweets

I was standing in line at the DMV, of all places, when the woman behind me started talking about persimmons. It was a Tuesday afternoon … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Tuesday in early December, and I was wide awake with a very specific Grinch-sized craving. I didn’t have … Read more

My neighbor Carol watched me fumbling with a half-melted bag of marshmallows one December afternoon, my toddler smearing butter on the counter while I tried … Read more

My nephew, Leo, asked me last December why I couldn’t just crush up some Oreos and roll them into balls. I started to explain why … Read more

My sister-in-law, Chloe, had claimed to hate shortbread cookies for as long as I’d known her. “Dry, crumbly, and boring,” she’d say every holiday season, … Read more

The neighborhood cookie swap was in twelve hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing those elaborate, multi-day projects—you know the ones, with … Read more

I was standing in the frozen food aisle of our local grocery store last December when the cold air from the open freezer door hit … Read more

My neighbor asked why I couldn’t just melt the butter and sugar together on the stove instead of using a double boiler. I started to … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a Tuesday, and I had a very specific, almost aggressive craving for apple pie. The kind of craving that makes … Read more

The neighborhood holiday potluck was in six hours and I had nothing. Absolutely nothing. My calendar had played a cruel trick on me, and I’d … Read more