Whether you're a veteran baker or trying to keep it simple with your home baking adventures, a no-fail sponge cake is an important part of your repertoire. Toothsome enough to eat on its own as a ...

Endlessly adaptable, tea cakes have long offered bakers across the country a moment of restoration. By Korsha Wilson The tea cake rarely gets its flowers. It’s not flashy or trendy. It doesn’t stand ...

Lemon-myrtle, lavender-Earl Grey, hazelnut-orange -- the selection of tea cakes from Valerie Confections screams spring. Assistant Food editor Betty Hallock is a fan: “They’re moist, dense and not too ...

Think of Etha Robinson as the Johnny Appleseed of pastry. Her mission, rather than planting apple trees, is to plant the idea of reviving the tea cake, a little cookie that has a lot of historical ...

Like all holidays worth celebrating, the African-American emancipation day known as Juneteenth centers on food. Juneteenth, which takes place each year on June 19th, celebrates the day in 1865 that ...