Many people probably used Passover as an opportunity to diet, cut out the carbs and sweets for a week, eat more salad. I concocted two different types of flourless brownies and made ice cream sundaes with them every night.

I am super in love with these. You can eat one for breakfast. You can have one for a snack. You can warm one up (or not) for dessert and top it with a scoop (or two) of vanilla ice cream. You can pick one up and eat it like a slice of pizza (over [...]

I’d had my eye on these brownies for a while. Since Valentine’s Day, to be precise, when I thought of making them but ultimately chickened out because the absence of butter made me too nervous. Instead, I made Melissa Clark’s other brownie recipe, which is magnificently awesome, my current favorite. These brownies were never far [...]

A couple weeks ago we went to visit the husband’s fam. There was a barbecue, and I was in charge of bringing dessert. (And what’s new with you?) I needed something easily transportable, something I could make a couple days in advance and that I knew would keep well, even improve with age, and so [...]

Melissa Clark just published a recipe for Olive Oil and Coconut Brownies and in the accompanying write-up talks about how, when it comes to dessert, her husband is perfectly content as long as chocolate features prominently, preferably in the form of chewy dark brownies, and about how well this works out for her since she’d [...]

Today is special. Do you know what it is?

We went to the husband’s side of the family’s Thanksgiving this year and so I didn’t have the privilege of tasting these amaaazing oaty chocolate caramel bars that my brother’s girlfriend brought for dessert. My mother and sister were positively gushing about how sinful they were, so I had to get the recipe and make [...]

Probably all of you remember my little rant on Halloween about wishing I could stay home and make homemade candy bars instead of going out. I went to the party that night, but I promised that the homemade candy bars would happen, and when I promise something, I deliver, even if no one could give [...]

It must be a really long time since I’ve made granola bars. Silly me, I thought I could just waltz right into my kitchen and whip some up. It took a lot of hunting around before I finally located the brown rice syrup at the back of my pantry, a woefully small amount left in [...]

What kind of a place would the world be without brownies stop. It’s too terrible to contemplate. Seriously, though, what would I have done following the disappointment of those stuffed peppers if I didn’t have these babies to pop immediately into my mouth, one after the other? After the other. After the other. And people [...]

Tonight I’m off to the land of milk and honey and falafel and hummus for probably the longest vacation I’ve ever taken. Yes, in an attempt to prevent any sort of unnecessary widespread panic, I am telling you very last minute. But don’t worry. It’s going to be fine. In a perfect world, I would’ve [...]

Do you need a Fourth of July dessert recipe? Pies are quintessential, but maybe not the most convenient for serving as they can get a bit messy (mine do, at least). Here’s your solution: blueberry crumb pie in bar form, individually portioned. They can be cut into tiny two-bite rectangles or more substantial squares. A dollop of fresh [...]

What you see here is the result of an 11 p.m. chocolate craving satisfied at around 1 a.m., while the husband was in blissful dreamland (or so I assume since it would be impossible to have nightmares with the scent of baking brownies wafting through the house, although there’s always the possibility of dreaming of [...]

I was dying while making these. Just trembling with excitement and anticipation with each disgusting, I mean delicious, layer. Layer 1: melted butter; layer 2: crushed-up shortbread cookies (and so just to clarify, we now have buttery shortbread cookies soaking in melted butter); layer 3: sweetened shredded coconut; layer 4: chopped pecans; layer 5: top-quality dark [...]

If I make a recipe twice in the span of three weeks, you know it’s a keeper, especially if I don’t make any adjustments. I love these things. Not only are they absolutely delicious, with a hint of almond in the crust, a cherry filling that’s the perfect balance of sweet and tart, and a [...]

Every time I make these I feel like a total cheat and also an evil genius. Evil genius trumps, though, because this recipe is awesome, and you’re going to love me for it. It’s also yet another testament to the magical powers of sweetened condensed milk, which has recently graduated to the category of “staple” in [...]

Dear Chocolate-Raspberry Squares, I miss you so much already! I know we were only together for less than 24 hours, but those hours were some of the most intense and magical hours of my entire life! I don’t wanna freak you out, but…I think I may be falling for you…hard. When we were together it was [...]

I thought these were going to be a tots disast (right, “disast” is an abbrev. for “disaster,” not a typo, and obvi “tots” is “total”). The anxiety began when I realized that I forgot to take the butter out of the fridge to soften. I do this all the time, actually, clearly pointing to the fact [...]