When I was nine or ten, fueled by a steady diet of the Food Network and a recent purchase of “Moneymakers: Good Cents for Girls” (a financial masterpiece from the American Girl Company), I launched my ...

It’s so easy to follow the instructions on the box and bring a crowd-pleasing cake to the table that even kids can do it. But today, we’re celebrating a boxed cake mix-based d ...

When I was in culinary school, one of the very first cakes my fellow chefs-in-training and I made was pound cake — and we made it over and over and over again. Why? It's a true classic, built on the ...

The key to making a good fruitcake is not to make a fruitcake. Forget about that syrupy-sweet, hard-as-a-brick loaf studded with colors that don’t even exist in nature. Instead, start with a ...