The holiday baking season is officially here. Sugar cookies, coconut cake, yule logs, bonbons fruitcakes, snickerdoodles: you name it and we're baking it. Let's kick things off with a cardamom cake ...

Peaches and cardamom are one of my all-time favorite flavor combinations. In my humble opinion, cardamom is under-appreciated in western cooking. Cooking with peaches (or nectarines for that matter) ...

Melissa Clark has three of them: pumpkin butterscotch custard, mini oatmeal-cranberry whoopie pies and a simple cardamom cake studded with red-wine pears. By Melissa Clark Melissa Clark, a longtime ...

The holiday baking season is officially here. Sugar cookies, coconut cake, yule logs, bonbons fruitcakes, snickerdoodles: You name it and we’re baking it. In this week’s food section, we’ll have a ...

This orange cardamom cake is like a day in the winter sun: orange brings freshness, cardamom brings warmth, and both come together in a wonderfully moist batter. The recipe is beginner-friendly, ...

I love baking, but until I was 16 our oven was just used as a place to keep big cutting boards and exiled frying pans. My Indian parents were of a place and time where no one had ovens at home. All ...

Not only are pistachios highly nutritious, they're also forgiving to the baker, said Michael and Pippa James. The moisture provided by their fat content makes this cake almost impossible to overbake.

Gail Simmons has a new cookbook: "Bringing it Home: Favorite Recipes from a Life of Adventurous Eating." The "Top Chef" judge previewed several recipes from the book ($30, Grand Central Publishing) at ...

Geographically speaking, the South Pasadena kitchen where Craig Strong is cooking this December afternoon is only a few miles from the elaborately outfitted kitchen and Michelin-starred ...