The secret ingredient in many professional layer cakes and a kind of magic to the home baker is called simple syrup and it’s precisely that: a syrup made simply of equal parts water and sugar.

Easy Chocolate Cake in a 9x13 pan is rich, moist, and full of chocolate flavor. This simple one-bowl cake recipe is topped ...

Save your delicious cakes from going to waste too soon with a trick that not only keeps them tasting fresh longer, but also ...

This dense, syrup-soaked cake is a triple orange threat, full of zest, juice and whole slices of candied orange. For the cake: Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9- to 10-inch springform pan and ...

Bibi Hutchings, a lifelong Southerner, lives along a quiet coastal Alabama bay with her cat, Zulu, and husband, Tom. She writes about the magical way food evokes memories, instantly bringing you back ...

This is a very dense, moist cake full of nuts. The eggs act as the leavening agent. As chef Marcy Goldman notes in her book "A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking," the cake will remind you of baklava.

Warm lemony syrup is poured over this Spanish cake, making it moist and fragrant. A modest slice is just right after a generous Seder meal. This recipe is an adaptation of an almond and orange ...

It is now October and the weather is getting colder, which means most people will be spending their evenings staying warm indoors with blankets, a water bottle or even a hot beverage of their choice.