It started with the cold again.Not outside. The kind of cold that lives in your stomach when the house goes too quiet and the sugar’s …
Martha Stewart dessert recipes from cakes and cookies to pies, brownies, and holiday baking. Easy dessert recipes I make all year plus Christmas and Easter favourites. If Martha made it, I probably tried it and wrote about what happened.
Desserts
I Tried Martha Stewart’S Rhubarb Strawberry Pie — And Thought Of That Dry Crust Again
It rained the night before. heavy. loud enough that it woke me at 2am and made me sit on the kitchen floor with tea I …
Tried Martha Stewart’s Noel Nut Balls — and They Tasted Like the Ghost of a Christmas I Forgot
The sugar bowl was already out.That’s how it started. I wasn’t planning to bake. I was looking for tea bags or maybe silence, I don’t …
I Tried Martha Stewart’s Key Lime Bars – and Burnt the Crust Out of Spite
It started with the zester. Bent just enough to catch on the skin of the lime and knick me, slightly—enough to swear. Enough to remember …
I Tried Martha Stewart’s Key Lime Cheesecake — Because I Needed Something That Didn’t Talk Back
It was too hot to think.Not summer-hot. Emotional-hot. That weird heat that rises when you’re holding too much in — jaw, gut, fists. I opened …
I Tried Martha Stewart’s Kitchen Sink Cookies. I Was Tired. They Didn’t Care.
The dog was barking at the wind again and I couldn’t find the lid to the sugar jar. That’s how it started. Not with a …
I Tried Martha Stewart’s Funfetti Cake – and Made a Bit of a Frosting Scene
It started with the pink food coloring.I wasn’t even planning to bake. I’d opened the drawer for a tea towel—one of the good ones, the …
I Tried Martha Stewart’s Upside-Down Rhubarb Cake. It Looked Like a Mistake. It Wasn’t.
It started with the knife.The dull one. The one I should’ve sharpened weeks ago—the one with the crack in the handle that pinches your thumb …
I Tried Martha Stewart’s Cranberry Upside-Down Cake, and the Edges Got Darker Than I Meant To
It was the kind of cold that settles in your joints before you even open the door. Not dramatic snowstorm cold—just the gray, unforgiving chill …
I Tried Martha Stewart’s Apple Honey Upside Down Cake—And It Tasted Like an Old Secret
The radiator was clicking again. That uneven clack it makes when the air’s too dry and I’ve forgotten to bleed the pipes. I wasn’t planning …