Pound Cake I’ve always called this a pound cake. According to my mother’s recipe notes, though, it was my Aunt Mildred’s “plain cake.” Maybe she used that name because she never glazed or frosted ...

If I could only bake one cake forever, it would be Dorie Greenspan's French Yogurt Cake. It's been my go-to for over 10 years because it's reliably good, endlessly adaptable, and always within reach.

As someone who bakes for a living and is always trying to find the perfect cake, this one comes very close. It’s light and airy with a slight sugary crust on the outside; plus, it's easy to adapt with ...

Vanilla, plain vanilla--it’s the flavor Americans just can’t object to. We smell it and we think of comfortable home cooking. Rosewater, though, is strange and exotic. Many even find it oddly ...

There’s a reason this easy 1930s recipe, topped with caramel and coconut, has been around for so long. By Melissa Clark Melissa Clark loves to bake vintage cake recipes. My new favorite cake has a ...

THE CAKE RECIPE from the back of the Queen Guinevere Cake Flour bag has become my go-to recipe for party cakes of all sorts. At some point, I started wondering just where that anonymous recipe came ...