THE CAKE RECIPE from the back of the Queen Guinevere Cake Flour bag has become my go-to recipe for party cakes of all sorts. At some point, I started wondering just where that anonymous recipe came ...

The recipe starts just like the classic Rice Krispies Treats: Melt a full bag of marshmallows with a couple of tablespoons of ...

Vanilla, plain vanilla--it’s the flavor Americans just can’t object to. We smell it and we think of comfortable home cooking. Rosewater, though, is strange and exotic. Many even find it oddly ...

"This is the ugliest, most delicious chocolate cake ever," says Casandra Yazdanpanah of Katy. "Nobody who has ever tried it can believe it starts with a boxed cake mix." Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

A springform pan is best because you can remove the sides and slide the cake out without disturbing the crumbs on top. If you have only a plain cake pan, though, that will work too; just make sure ...

Q: My mother has been looking for a recipe that her mom used to make. It’s called Hot Milk Cake. She said that her mom probably started making it around the 1940s when she lived in Virginia. None of ...