White chocolate and graham cracker cookie cups, overflowing with cherry pie filling, make these little bites so very sweet. Inspired by Danielle Steel’s Palomino.
Banana coffee cake, inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros.
Incredibly light biscuits with orange marmalade and a chocolate hazelnut spread. Inspired by Zakiah Baker’s To Be Her. (Author Interview Inside)
Cherry and Amaretto shortbread cookies for Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.
Mango, toasted coconut, and basil, set on a shortbread crust. Inspired by Jerry Spinelli’s Stargirl.
Zucchini bread, baked with a crunchy pecan topping. This one is inspired by Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.
Strawberry and thyme, covered in an oatmeal crumble, and baked until gooey and bubbling. It’s some kind of witchcraft. Inspired by Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Princess Ben.
Classic flan, based off of Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.
A Sambuca and chocolate molten lava cake, inspired by Hemingway.
Hazelnut dark chocolate chip cookies that are as full of magic as The Sea of Trolls, by Nancy Farmer, is.