Cake
High-Altitude Banana Crumb Bread
This banana bread is great with or without the crumb topping. I like to bake it in a cake pan instead of a loaf pan so it seems extra fancy.
High-Altitude Poppy Seed Pound Cake
Developed for baking in the mountains, this flavorful pound cake is a winner, especially when topped with creamy homemade chocolate icing.
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Strawberry and Basil-Cornmeal Shortcakes With Vanilla Whipped Cream
These shortcakes have a touch of fresh basil for an herbal dimension and some cornmeal to the shortcake for texture. Both additions keep the dessert from getting too sweet and pull the classic dish in an unexpected, modern direction.
Knead, Rest, Repeat: How Gluten Actually Works
Gluten is a superhero with more webs than Spider-Man. But as a home baker (or pasta maker), how can you get it to do what you want?
Baking Jen Yee’s Sesame Chiffon Cake Makes Me Feel Like a Pastry Professional
Delicate, flavorful, and light as air, this cake is fancy-bakery quality but deceptively simple to make at home.
Tahini Chiffon Cake With Burnt Honey Cream and Poached Rhubarb
This cake has the fluffy, so-light-it-could-float texture of angel food cake, with a touch of egg yolk for richness. Tahini brings pure sesame flavor and a lining of sesame seeds adds a bonus level of crunch.
Use a Tall Cake Pan for Bigger, Better Desserts
Three inches of height (instead of the standard two) can be a serious game changer.
They Call This Cream Cheese Frosting Magic—Who Am I to Argue?
Spread it over my riff on carrot cake for the ultimate spring dessert.
Golden Beet Cake With Cream Cheese Ermine Frosting
Carrot cake, but with beets—and the dreamiest frosting of all.
Joy Cho’s Gem Cakes Are an Internet Sensation. Here’s How to Make Your Own
These teeny, bouncy, beautiful cakes are the bright spot everyone could use right now.
Glazed Sour Cream Gem Cakes
These mini cakes are dressed in a variety of glazes for a simple—yet sophisticated—springtime snack. Including sweet rice flour and rich sour cream means they’re plush, tender, and wonderfully moist.
Banana Pudding, Meet Cheesecake
These cheesecake bars are the best of two classics.
Banana Pudding Cheesecake Bars
An easy press-in Nilla wafer crust cradles a silky layer of fresh banana cheesecake, which gets topped with a light and fluffy sour cream whip.
Learn the Small Cake Equation and Make Every Cake a 6-Inch Cake
A 6-inch cake is a pandemic power move. And with a little cake math, any cake can be a 6-inch cake.
It’s High Time You Knew How to Make Cannabutter
Infused edibles are much easier to make at home than you might think; three experts weigh in on process, dosing, and the best recipes for putting your butter (or oil) to work.
Welsh Cakes
Serve these raisin-studded griddle cakes hot or cold, with butter, jam or ice cream, as a mid-morning snack, or as a stand-alone dessert.
These 14 Beautiful Bundt Pans Make Effortlessly Fancy Cakes
Making a gorgeous cake is as easy as choosing an incredible Bundt pan.
This Danish Dough Whisk Can Make Any Bread, Cake, or Muffin Better
No more over-mixed batter. No more dough hands.
19 Cake Frosting Recipes So Good You’ll Lick the Bowl
Here’s how to make different types of frostings and cake fillings.
How Baking Soda Really Works
That orange box is good for way more than just leavening in your cakes.