Welcome to “Cookbook of the Week.” This is a series where I highlight cookbooks that are unique, easy to use, or just special to me. While finding a particular recipe online serves a quick purpose, ...

Award-winning baker Dorie Greenspan knows how to make an elaborate tiered wedding cake cascading with flowers, or a sculpted Darth Vader cake. But she’s pretty clear that she doesn’t want to. Her true ...

I can tell the holiday baking season has begun when I see the glossy and colorful, culinary magazine covers plus new and classic baking cookbooks on display, showcasing masterpieces that might ...

My cookbook collection has long maxed out the space I have on my bookshelves, so I’m pretty picky about which new books I add to my collection. The book has to be unique and, because I am someone who ...

Their fame comes not from recipe books or cookery shows, but emails. Some time in the mid-2000s, viral recipes started popping up in inboxes and calling for people to ditch the long-winded baking slog ...

You’ve seen it, you know it, you’ve been stumped by it — the “is it cake” viral videos where almost anything can be a seemingly normal object and then with the slice of a knife viewers discover that ...