A dirt cake is a memory-making recipe and tasty dessert all in one.

Halloween in the late 1970s and early 1980s found many young kids my age wearing plastic costumes with hard plastic, matching masks held on by stretchy, rubber bands stapled to the masks on each side.

I see dirt when I look out my window, and I couldn’t be happier. Instead of mounds of endless white, I see patches of brown. Warmer temperatures are whittling away at the snow and it’s cause for ...