Maybe because she’s too busy partying in her Manolo Blahnik shoes, punk princess Marie Antoinette, as conceived by filmmaker Sofia Coppola, never offers cake to the angry rabble. But she does put away ...

When autumn comes, a whole new season of entertaining begins. Small dinner parties, club and charity meetings, cocktail get-togethers, big holiday open houses. No matter the size and type of event, a ...

Basic cake recipes are the base for a simple birthday treat or a complex confection Birthday parties, holiday soirees, coronations: They’re all perfect occasions for a good layer cake. Rising tiers of ...

Birthday parties, holiday soirees, coronations: They’re all perfect occasions for a good layer cake. Rising tiers of delicate genoise layered with ethereal French butter cream — imagine cirrus clouds ...

B irthday parties, Easter soirees, coronations: They’re all perfect occasions for a good layer cake. Rising tiers of delicate genoise, or sponge cake, layered with ethereal French butter cream make ...

Birthday parties, holiday soirees, coronations: They’re all perfect occasions for a good layer cake. Rising tiers of delicate genoise layered with ethereal French butter cream — imagine cirrus clouds ...

Before starting work at the Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School in New York, I would never have thought about making a genoise. To be truthful, I had never heard of this French dessert. Later, I ...

A note about genoise cakes: They're very simple cakes, relying on equal parts of the three ingredients with the optional addition of melted butter. But many cookbooks, perhaps because they've been ...