In my life as a pastry chef, I’ve always held fast to the belief that there are certain flavors -- specifically coffee, lemon and chocolate -- that are best taken to the extreme. If I create a coffee ...

These bakes for cake lovers are made for anyone who also wants cupcakes in the mix. Big cakes, small cakes, it’s all about ...

Certain dishes, you can understand why they fall out of favor. Anything called “Watergate salad” was destined to have a short shelf life, even if it wasn’t made of pistachio Jell-o and crushed ...

Read all the stories from Slate’s 25 Most Important American Recipes of the Past 100 Years. The chocolate “lava cake” is firmly entrenched in the culinary pantheon—it’s the kind of decadent treat you ...

There are chocolate cakes that are light, moist and fluffy, with an echo of chocolate on the aftertaste…and there are others like this one that are deep in flavour, moist and fudge-like; the kind that ...

Texas Fudge Cake, sometimes referred to as Texas Sheet Cake, is scrumptious and easy to prepare. There’s no clear-cut reason why it is named for the Lone Star State, but some rumors credit Lady Bird ...