Cakes, Baking, Crafts, Creativity.

I've always been under the impression, based on dire warnings from many sources, that even the tiniest speck of egg yolk will keep egg whites from beating to a stiff peak. But I wanted to see if...

Red velvet cake certainly does invite a lot of curiosity. So let's talk about it and taste some to try out three different recipes that I rounded up. Considering that I don't...

I finally found a way to prevent my family from eating any cookies that I intend to eat myself by making these salty-sweet cookies. The trick is to just put something on them that they think is...

If you make a lot of meringue-based buttercreams, or even a lot of white cakes, you’ll eventually have a day that you have a lot of extra egg yolks. If you have any sense of not wasting materials,...

Fat-free cake is a big challenge, but I once had a client who had gone through liver failure, and she couldn't eat any fats at all. Usually, when a client has dietary restrictions you can get...

Oven hot spots are one of many, many things that can ruin a cake. I recently got an email from a reader asking for ideas about why her cupcakes didn't bake the way they should have. Some of them...