Editor’s note: High altitude makes cookies spread in the pan, cakes fall and few baked goods turn out as they do at sea level. This twice-monthly column presents recipes and tips that make baking in ...

See ya, plain pound cake.

This is a story about cake. But it’s also a story about giving in without giving up, of lofty ideas and the pesky reality that intervenes, and eggs—lots and lots of eggs. For our spring Travel Issue, ...

A reader from Middleville loved the white chocolate raspberry cream cake recipe that ran in Cooking with Kathy Jan. 17, 2007, and was desperate to find it. Kathy Carrier received this recipe from ...

A cookbook can change your life. Two years ago I reviewed one called “Southern Cakes,” which did just that. Like most people, I’d always thought making a cake from scratch was only for the heroic. In ...

This eye-catching cake features layers of crunchy chocolate sandwich cookies stacked into a rich base, topped with a smooth, ...

For the cake, place the chopped chocolate into a large heatproof bowl. Melt the chocolate by suspending the bowl over a pan of simmering water (do not let the bottom of the bowl touch the water). When ...

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray the bottom only of a 9-inch springform pan with nonstick cooking spray. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, rub ...

This recipe puts a modern spin on the retro poke cake, a popular 1970s dessert made by poking holes in a sheet cake and pouring in bright Jell-O for a moist, groovy-looking crumb. In this case the ...