Desserts

Thanksgiving drinks used to mean a jug of apple cider and calling it done, until I hosted a year with

I ruined two batches of peanut butter fudge with marshmallow fluff before I figured out that every recipe I’d tried

I made three batches of coconut cookies in one week before I finally figured out why my first attempt turned

My first lemon cheesecake came out of the oven looking perfect, and then split down the middle like a fault

The first time I made banana pudding for a family cookout, I used cook-and-serve pudding by mistake and spent four

The first sugar cookies I ever iced looked nothing like the picture — lopsided, cracked icing, colors bleeding into each

My first attempt at a vanilla cake came out of the oven looking perfect and collapsed within ten minutes. Turns

My first “perfect” batch of these spread into one giant cookie sheet-sized puddle — I’d skipped the chill because I