Wedding Cake Tips

Get the most for your money.

Snackie Cakes

Our own versions of cellophane-wrapped classics allow you to make your own old-fashioned treats.

Coop de Ville

If your neighbors are wary, a gift of fresh-laid eggs may change their minds.

New Orleans King Cake for Mardi Gras

Try your hand at the ubiquitous pre-Lenten sweet.

Chocolate Cassis Cake with Raspberries

Whipped cream frosting makes decorating a cakewalk.

Blackberry Coulis

An intensely flavored sauce for desserts.

Olive Oil Cake

With a hint of orange and the crunch of cornmeal.

Chocolate Icebox Cake with Mascarpone and Blackberries

A rich, easy, no-bake dessert that combines chocolate wafers and blackberry liqueur.

Lemon Pound Cake

This golden, rich cake benefits from a generous amount of butter.

The Rise of the Salt Tooth

The craze for salted sweets.

Healthy Butter That Actually Tastes Good

This week’s mission: melted white chocolate dessert sauce and butter with olive oil.

10 Mail-Order Gifts for 2009

Send a boozy, chocolaty, or meaty present this holiday season.

10 Food Feuds

Is there nothing original in food anymore?

Not So Much for Cooking

The cookbooks that didn’t quite make the cut.

Old Beer Is New Again

Aging suds in oak casks comes back in style.