A backpacker emerges from a wooden trail atop a molasses crumb cake to find a disturbingly large footprint. For my oldest brother’s birthday this month, I mixed my love of Legos and baking to ...

Every week, we’re spotlighting a different food blogger who’s shaking up the blogosphere with tempting recipes and knockout photography. Below, Alejandra Ramos of Always Order Dessert makes a case for ...

This dense, rich cake from Joan Aller's forthcoming cookbook, "Cider Beans, Wild Greens and Dandelion Jelly" (a collection of recipes from southern Appalachia due out in June), is remarkably easy to ...

Stacy Lenhart of Kempton is looking for recipes for salmon cakes or salmon patties. Stacy is also looking for a recipe for a Jell-O cake that uses small blocks of Jell-O in the cake. Peggy Zimmerman ...

Poke cakes are steeped in tradition. But New York City recipe developer Jason Schreiber’s soaked cakes have an undeniably modern sensibility. This one, from his best-selling cookbook, “Fruit Cake: ...

1. Make the Cake: Preheat the oven to 350°. Spray a 9-inch square baking pan with vegetable cooking spray. In a large bowl, combine the flour with the ground ginger, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. In ...

In terms of calories from fat, there are good cakes and there are bad cakes. Generally, if a recipe for an unfrosted cake calls for 1/2 cup or less of butter, margarine or shortening, and produces at ...

The Violet ginger cake is made with freshly grated ginger, cloves, earthy molasses and cinnamon. I love the taste of cloves, but only when you can barely detect it, as a subtle supporting act. This ...

Every January, I regularly confront a list of things I “should” be doing over the next 12 months. Among the suggested “shoulds” recently aimed in my direction have been exercising more, eating a ...