I'm as big a fan as anyone of heavy, butter-rich cakes – fat slices of madeira, Victoria sandwiches and doorstop wedges of fondant-covered birthday cake. I've even adopted "more butter is better" as a ...

Layer cakes: An Oct. 18 article on layer cakes included a recipe for basic genoise that called for 4 ounces (half a stick) unsalted butter. Four ounces of butter is one stick. In the recipe for French ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keriliwi via Unsplash When I learned that baking powder wasn’t invented until the late 1840s, I wondered how cakes ― which need ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Some say that knowing how to make a good genoise is what separates "the girls from the women". I ...