May was my first month as part of the Daring Bakers group, and what an introduction! Our challenge this month was to make an opera cake. Ope...

I devised this recipe for a recipe contest sponsored by Green & Black's Chocolate. I gave them awesome chocolate-orange cakes, they ...

Last week was Cake Week at work: I had just a few days to create and design a new cake menu for our wholesale and catering books. We'll ...

I made homemade graham crackers last week, but I forgot one crucial bit of information: we don't eat many graham crackers around here. A...

As a child I hated camping. I hated the claustrophobia of stuffy tents and sleeping bags, I hated being away from warm showers, I hated hiki...

After several pleasant weeks of cooler-than-usual temperatures, it's getting warm again in Los Angeles. The rising temperatures haven...

Have you ever had a macaron ? Macarons--not to be confused with macaroons, the soft coconut cookies that are delicious in their own right--a...

I made these awesome soft caramels last week, and after making the Girl Scout cookies I still had almost a pound of caramels left over. An ...

About a month ago, I found a great recipe for homemade Samoas (aka Caramel De-Lites, the best Girl Scout cookie ever) on Baking Bites . I fi...

I was creating a tutorial on using chocolate transfer sheets for the website yesterday, so I made a little cake to demonstrate on. Since it ...

Chewy chocolate cookies sandwich homemade hazelnut gelato, topped with chocolate-hazelnut sauce (like homemade Nutella). We had the Nutella ...

Raspberry-Chocolate Bars. Fudgy chocolate-raspberry cake, a layer of homemade raspberry marshmallow, and a topping of chocolate-raspberry ga...

"Love Stinks" and "I Love Me" were the first to sell, going within 10 minutes of putting them in the display case. Feel ...