Three contestants, all from California, baked showstoppers for the series’ finale, where one pastry chef walked away with $50 ...

There’s a cliché in the restaurant industry that line cooks are afraid of pastry. They’ll complain it’s too precise, requires too much measurement. Add to that the fact that most culinary schools silo ...

A Michelin star pastry chef in SLO County has been competing in a national competition for the crème de la crème, and it ends ...

Cat‑themed Pastry Cat opens in East Sacramento with specialty cookies and laminated pastries. Weekend hours; expect sellouts.

Which one should you use for your next baking project?

You might think that professional pastry chefs bake everything from scratch — that they’ve come up with a recipe for every dough, frosting, and filling. But even the pros appreciate a good shortcut … ...

When Kristin Colazas Rodriguez, the former pastry chef at Dominique Crenn’s restaurant Petit Crenn in San Francisco, moved home to Long Beach, California, in 2018, it seemed like there wasn’t a single ...

Another Mother’s Day without my mom, and I’m filled with memories. Truth be told, my mother was not famous for her baking.

For the last several years, I’ve noticed a terrifying trend: Major magazines and food publications say that pastry chefs are going extinct. As a pastry chef myself, this is bad news, to say the least.

© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. At the Vinings mainstay Canoe, executive pastry chef Jessica McKinney incorporates seasonal flavors ...

A Thai-American owned bakery and cafe built around a cat theme has moved into East Sacramento. Pastry Cat held its soft ...