Your precious desserts deserve not just a plate, but a pedestal. I mean, are you really going to toil over the 22 steps it takes to make a prinsesstårta from scratch, only to place your marzipan masterpiece on an (often) unaccommodating, slightly curved plate? It wouldn’t be the end of the world, nor do I…
For many people, including myself, boxed cake mix is the entry point to baking. It’s both convenient to use and easily adaptable, which makes it perfect for keeping in the pantry for any type of cake emergency. Plus, the variety of flavors means that there’s a boxed cake mix for every palate. Jocelyn Delk Adams,…
The New Year doesn’t start for me until I’ve had galette des rois, the French pastry that hits shelves in early January to celebrate Epiphany. When I lived in France, I kept these flaky galettes des rois — which translates to ‘kings’ cake’ — in steady rotation for the entire month. They’re that delicious, veritable…
Arsenic have been found in the blood of one of three women who died after eating a Christmas cake in a suspected poisoning in Brazil, a police chief has told local media. The highly toxic substance was also identified in the blood test results of a 10-year-old boy and the woman who made the cake…
I know the concept of “what to do with leftover Halloween candy” sounds like someone inventing a problem. Like with casserole or meat sauce or Thanksgiving turkey, becoming leftovers is Halloween candy’s raison d’être. And unlike those other delicacies, a wrapped Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup will take months to go bad — meaning that a…
