Carrot cake is one of my favorite kinds of cakes. Usually, carrot cake tastes more like a spice cake; you don’t taste carrots. Carrot cake is perfect for the holiday, too. You can sweeten carrot cake ...

Ask Colette Peters to make a cake, and the results are too intriguing to eat. Depending on her mood — or the request — Peters can turn batter and icing into a delicate nosegay of colorful spring sugar ...