Wedding cake bakers in New York whose wares I have enjoyed include Colette Peters, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Toba Garrett and Jennifer McAllister. All were easily as good as they looked!

Rose Levy Beranbaum's opinion from the Pie and Pastry Bible: Either bake pies on a baking stone placed on the lowest shelf/floor of the oven. OR bake with convection, and oven temperature reduced 25 degrees, without a stone. The...

No. I use the proportions from Rose Levy Beranbaum: 468 g flour, 354 g water. I haven’t looked into whether there is any point in modifying proportions or method. The difference was consistent with what I’ve observed...

Marmalade. Rose Levy Beranbaum has a recipe for bitter orange curd in The Cake Bible. When Nigella Lawson was doing a biweekly column in the NY Times Dining section, she published a recipe for a cake that calls for bitter...

Either way would be great! The only thing my blueberry pies have to have is lemon juice and zest. I do really love Rose Levy Beranbaum's out of her Pie and Pastry Bible. It is in a cream cheese lattice crust. So good and...

or fruit pie might be the ticket. I just checked Rose Levy Beranbaum's Pie & Pastry Bible, and she has recipes for an Apple Weincreme Chiffon Tart and a Pear Chiffon Tart that might fit the bill. Hope this helps. Hope you have a...

I love to bake all kinds of cakes, including cupcakes. My favorite cake book is Rose Levy Beranbaum's “Cake Bible” because I get consistently delicious results from her recipes. The problem is, whenever I make...

I believe Rose Levy Beranbaum's Pie and Pastry Bible has a recipe for this. Have not tried it.

the batter; the extra weight of a larger cake calls for a sturdier structure. Rose Levy Beranbaum covers the exact science fully in “The Cake Bible”.

Check out “The Cake Bible” by Rose Levy Beranbaum. In the section on wedding cakes she has a discussion of cake pan sizes, how much batter is needed to fill them, and how many people they serve. If you don’t know...

, in effect, drill through the cherry – pit comes out opposite end with straw, and from The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum, d) use an old fashioned type hairpin (though if you’re a guy, or short haired female you...

if it was iced or just filled with it. Check Rose Levy Beranbaum's “The Cake Bible”, the recipe for ‘Dotted Swiss Wedding Cake’ to see how it is done.

For those who are not familiar with The Cake Bible, it’s by Rose Levy Beranbaum. I haven’t tried the chocolate angel food cake, but can vouch for a number of other recipes in the book. Here’s a link to Ms. Levy...

I have to say, I agree: this particular yellow cake is simply the best. It’s the only yellow-cake recipe I use. Very moist, with melt-in-your mouth texture and the best butter flavor. In fact, I am a big fan of Rose Levy...

with that kind of crust, but I can recommend Rose Levy Beranbaum's pecan tassies from Rose's Christmas Cookies, if you’d like a different shape. There was a thread on the Gourmet issue with cookies from each year’s...