While the cakes cool, make the frosting by beating 1/3 cup shortening and three cups powdered sugar. Stir in three tablespoons of heavy cream and 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract. Add three ounces of ...

The Gift of Southern Cooking: Recipes and Revelations from Two Great American Cooks by Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock (Knopf, 2003) Gothamist is convinced that when it comes to birthday cake, taste ...

Recently off the press is “Dorie’s Anytime Cakes” by Dorie Greenspan (2025, HarperCollins Harvest, $35). This collection of ...

Note: This model butter cake recipe is perhaps the best you’ll ever eat--three sumptuous chocolate layers. Sylvia Thompson, who developed the recipe for her “The Birthday Cake Book” (Chronicle Books: ...

Lori Fredrich reviews the new America's Test Kitchen cookbook: "Everything Chocolate: A decadent collection of morning pastries, nostalgic sweets and showstopping desserts." She also shares two ...

Chef Anahita Dhondy and Shivesh Bhatia at the launch of 'Chocolate: 100 Irresistible Recipes'. (Image via Instagram/Shivesh Bhatia) Few ingredients have a reach and fan base as deep as chocolate.

Summer’s heat has begun to diminish, and that means fall baking season approaches. Looking for a dessert for your next dinner party? Baker Claire Ptak of London’s Violet cakeshop shares the perfect ...

Ingredients needed for the "fried chicken cake pops": Chocolate cake mix (and any required ingredients), pretzels sticks, mini marshmallows, white candy melts, butterscotch chips, cornflakes, coconut ...

When I first moved to the city I call home, I was fortunate to meet a woman who is a natural connector. She quickly introduced me to several other women, most of whom were transplants like me. In an ...

If chocolate has even one ounce of curative power, Marcel Desaulniers' latest cookbook is a panacea. In fact, the book cites a recent study by the Harvard School of Public Health of male graduate ...