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Our Best Portable Baked Goods

Doorstep to doorstep, these portable treats keep their sweet composure. Whether heading to a tailgate, potluck, or barbecue, you need a baked good that can...
1-2-3-4 Cake: Four Ways sliced on cake stand

1-2-3-4 Cake: Four Ways

It's easy as 1-2-3-4! With these 1-2-3-4 Cake: Four Ways, start with the old-fashioned Basic 1-2-3-4 Cake and twirl it up to entertain throughout the...

From the Pantry: Almonds

by Stacey Ballis Whether ground, sliced, or mixed into a paste, this ancient (and nutritious) nut delivers depth and dimension to your baking in all its...

Origin of a Classic: Shoofly Pie

Find the recipe for Brett Braley's Shoofly Pie, here!  Traditionally consisting of a basic piecrust with a cake-like molasses-flavored filling and a crumbled flour, sugar, and...
Favorite Bread Art

Our Favorite Bread Artists

Slashed, docked, or scored—we’re enamored with the beauty from the lame blade. When scoring bread, bakers use a small double-sided kitchen blade called a lame...

Haute & Bold: A Look Inside Hedley & Bennett

By Besha Rodell  Hedley & Bennett’s Ellen Bennett has created a runaway success with her beautiful, durable aprons.  If Ellen Bennett weren’t the world’s first celebrity apron designer,...
Francisco Migoya on Eclairs

Francisco Migoya on Éclairs

by Gabriella Gershenson How to master the éclair? For this Modernist Cuisine pastry chef, it’s precision, precision, precision. Francisco Migoya may be the world’s foremost baking...

Origin of a Classic: Tarte Tropézienne

by Anne E. McBride Saint-Tropez, on the French Côte d’Azur, evokes luxurious summer vacations spent doing little more than achieving a perfectly bronzed body, sipping...

Dutch Oven Bread 101

by Anna Theoktisto A cast-iron dutch oven is the perfect vessel for baking bread at home. Remember the bread machine craze of the 1990s?  That little “modern...

Farmer, Miller, Baker: The Innovators Behind the Heritage Grain Movement

by Scott Mowbray The movement to source heritage grains for better bread is often a three-way dance, and it’s growing.  Getting back to slow methods and...