We asked several L.A.-area pastry chefs and cooks to contribute their favorite holiday cookies. Each is a simple, homestyle cookie that reflects each contributor’s memories of holidays past. While ...

If you’re looking for a new, fun and absolutely adorable holiday dessert, forget baking a cake in the shape of a candy cane and whip up these snowmen tea cookies instead. Cute and delicious, what else ...

Pastry chef Toni Chiappetta, owner of Sweetie Pies Bakery says that, for her, Christmas time is all about the dessert – different cookies and cakes. She shares one of her favorite cookie recipes.

Looking at these powdered sugar confections you're thinking, what a nice little buttery tea cake. Then your tongue gets smacked by a two-by-four of maple flavor. Well done J. Loraine Barbeaux of ...

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 ...

Every Southern cook I know has a different way of making tea cakes. Even my grandmother and her sister, Earnestine, had different recipes for the delicately flavored sweet treats. Aunt Earnestine’s ...

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 ...

The original “Tartine” came out in 2006, which feels like eons ago. Inspired by the San Francisco bakery of the same name, the book became an instant classic for bakers who love pretty tarts and ...

Although Juneteenth has passed, it is crucial we continue to recognize this important point in history throughout the year. As mentioned in my last recipe, Texas has been celebrating Juneteenth for ...