At home, when the banana is overdone, it is not thrown away: it is used. It is the silent warning that it is time to turn on ...

Dump cake recipes derive their name from the method in which they are made—you simply dump the ingredients into a baking dish ...

Fruit-stained cakes and green-on-green pestos are your invitation to cook with the season’s brightest, crispest ingredients.

Don’t roll your eyes! There IS a universe in which fruit cake can actually taste good and have a place on the holiday dessert table. I promise, this fruit cake is not the doubles-as-a-doorstop variety ...

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 ...

This image features a vibrant jelly cake filled with an assortment of fresh fruits suspended in a clear gelatin layer.