I once made my wife the Ebingers blackout cake - very delicious but a pain to make. Can someone tell me where are the best places to get blackout cake? My wife’s grandma used to go to the cake box many years ago. Thanks in...

I am a writer looking for information about cakes specific to certain regions. North Carolina is supposed to have a Lady Baltimore cake (though a lot of North Carolinians have never had one). Kentucky is said to have a mint julep...

I recently found out about “Jessica Berard Cakes” . I am also planning a wedding :-), and I think I am going to book with her. She did a cake for one of my friend’s bridal shower and it looked exactly like a purse. It was one of...

Jessica's Cakes. Hands down. She has the flair of Gateaux at a much more reasonable price. The cake is delectable (we had a combo of chocolate cake with espresso mousse and cinnamon-star anise cake with ginger mousse), and to say...

I’m making a small wedding cake for a friend next month. I’ve made a large-scale cake before, using one of the master recipes from The Cake Bible, and doing all the calculations to get the proper amount of batter and...

Baking Book which is back in print in replica form. We baked the silver cake (I think its called) for my wedding years ago and no white cake surpasses it. As for other baking books, I think Jessica is referring to Rose...

My friend has requested lemon poppyseed cake for his birthday on Friday. I’m thinking of making the recipe out of Rose’s Cake Bible (I just bought the book, and my purchase was reaffirmed after the raves on the thread...

Despite all the rave reviews, I’m not a huge fan of The Doughnut Plant. First, I prefer cake doughnuts and second, the glaze didn’t stand out. Then I saw their new cake doughnuts at Zabar’s today. Could it be, a...

I am planning on baking our wedding cake (for approximately 65 people) in two months and am looking for suggestions on either 1) good, simple cake recipes (for a white cake with strawberry filling) or 2) good cookbooks that have...

grabbed a couple cupcakes at Sugar Sweet Sunshine last night and happened to pick up a lemon (lemon cake and lemon icing) - it was hands-down the best lemon cake I’ve ever had. very moist, slighly dense and bursting with...

Hello. I’m getting married soon and will be having a pastry chef acquaintance make a wedding cake for us (instead of shelling out a ton of money for a ‘real’ cake). She is totally flexible and willing to make...

When I was a kid my mother would bake what I remember being called a chocolate pudding-cake. I remember it as being very similar to what we now see as molten chocolate cake, except that it was not baked in individual ramekins,...

I headed to the Sea Grill last night to use up my $50 Restaurant Associates gift certificate. The most notable aspect of the meal by far was the unbelievably good crab cakes. Top-quality crabmeat, no celery or bell peppers, just...

I think there was some talk a while back about the Red Velvet Cake in a recent issue of Bon Appetit, but I couldn’t find the thread. I want to make this cake for a friend’s birthday party tomorrow, but reading the...

i’m trying to finalize the menu for a bridal tea i’m co-hosting in portland. thanks to a few chowhounds, i’ve found the scones so now i just need a cake for 20 people. three lions and pix patisserie look...