Making a cake that looks impressive doesn’t have to be complicated. With a few smart techniques and simple ingredients, you can create something that looks like it took way more effort than it did.

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Cake, in all its delectable forms, holds a special place in the world of desserts. Whether it’s a humble home-baked one or intricate showstopper whipped up by a professional pastry chef, cake ...

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Cake is a very quotable dessert. From Marie Antoinette’s infamous “Let them eat cake” (something she probably never said), to Julia Child’s “A party without cake is just a meeting,” cake is a part of ...

I always assumed that to make a chocolate cake as chocolatey as possible, you need to add a lot of melted chocolate and use the expensive high-quality stuff. Imagine my surprise when I learned on my ...

This strawberry-raspberry cake from Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson has a short ingredient list, and you can adapt it with different fruits, too. The Frasca Food and Wine chef adapted the recipe to make ...

This in-between time of year in Southern California can be both wonderful and confounding. If you’ve ever spent any time outside of SoCal, September usually means the chance to pull on a sweater and ...

Persimmons were never my favorite growing up (I would much rather go for a sweet, juicy clementine), but they were a mainstay in our house during the colder months. I remember nabbing only the end ...