It’s a universal law that a lovely loaf or bundt cake must be topped with a simple icing drizzle. Although simplicity doesn’t have to mean flavorless, most powdered sugar icings are, sadly, completely ...

I have a delicious collection of memories involving family picnics through the years, going all the way back to childhood recollections of making peach ice cream with a hand-cranked machine. Later ...

This mountain of rummy persimmon cake drizzled with rummy orange icing was inspired by James Beard’s persimmon bread. Meanwhile, butter a 12-cup bundt pan with 2 tablespoons of the melted butter, then ...

Icing. Frosting. Glaze. Those terms get swirled round and round like the curlicue decorations on a cake, merging and blending until they appear to be exactly the same thing. However, although all of ...

"I actually found this cake in my grandmother's old recipe arsenal," says the cookbook author and Grandbaby Cakes food blogger. "The caramelized white chocolate icing takes it over the top!" "I ...

A piping bag of butter cream with a set of specially shaped tips can turn the blank canvas of a cake into a work of art. If you've ever uttered some Oooo's and Ahhh's at the sight of some cupcakes or ...

Q: I saw your July 24th column (“Rye bread recipe lost … and found,” Good Eating) in which you tracked down a missing beloved rye bread recipe. Could you work that magic again? I had a Trib recipe for ...

Blanche Harrrell from Forest Hill, Md., was looking for a recipe for making a cake that was sold at the old A&P stores when she was growing up called Spanish Bar Cake. She said it was a delicious dark ...