This weekend I tried and semi-failed to make a checkerboard cake for my sister Alex's birthday. The cake itself was delicious and it was rather attractive but a perfect checkerboard cake, it was not.

Have you ever seen one of those striking checkerboard cakes and wondered “How’d they do that?” As some of you already know, checkerboard cakes are created with the help of a ringed cake divider — a ...

We may not be master cake decorators, but we’ve got a few tricks up our sleeves to make our confections look good. Like a simple technique for frosting like a pro and now this method for creating a ...

The last few months have been a temptation worthy of Beelzebub himself. I have been testing recipes for a book on desserts and pastry. February began with cold mousses and souffles to match the snow ...

Bakers, you may start your ovens. Longtime readers of this column know that there are definite patterns to the subject matter. Some have to do with ingredients. Apples ripen in the autumn, so you can ...