Welcome to “Cookbook of the Week.” This is a series where I highlight cookbooks that are unique, easy to use, or just special to me. While finding a particular recipe online serves a quick purpose, ...

Award-winning baker Dorie Greenspan knows how to make an elaborate tiered wedding cake cascading with flowers, or a sculpted Darth Vader cake. But she’s pretty clear that she doesn’t want to. Her true ...

Their fame comes not from recipe books or cookery shows, but emails. Some time in the mid-2000s, viral recipes started popping up in inboxes and calling for people to ditch the long-winded baking slog ...

You’ve seen it, you know it, you’ve been stumped by it — the “is it cake” viral videos where almost anything can be a seemingly normal object and then with the slice of a knife viewers discover that ...

It's not what you might expect, but it's delicious. None of us remembers a time when there weren’t chocolate cakes. From decadent layer cakes to fudgy lava cakes, it seems like chocolate bakes have ...

My cookbook collection has long maxed out the space I have on my bookshelves, so I’m pretty picky about which new books I add to my collection. The book has to be unique and, because I am someone who ...

I can tell the holiday baking season has begun when I see the glossy and colorful, culinary magazine covers plus new and classic baking cookbooks on display, showcasing masterpieces that might ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of Ina Garten's recipes is a mocha chocolate cake, and the Barefoot Contessa claimed it could move someone to tears. For clarification, ...

This gingerbread cake — with a swoop of molasses frosting — is rich and complex in flavor. It’s also a snap to make. By Mia Leimkuhler Jessica B. Harris’s holiday gingerbread cake with molasses ...