Pandan—a tropical plant with long, spear-like leaves—infuses this light and fluffy cake with its distinctive herbal flavor, jasmine-like aroma, and light green color. This variation of the chiffon cake is popular in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, where pandan is plentiful and found in many desserts and drinks. In the United States, frozen pandan leaves are…

View the print-ready version of this recipe. Every person in my family would rank Tres Leches Cake in our top favorites of all time! I love that it’s not overly sweet, it’s super easy to make, I can make it in advance, and its absolutely delicious! We make it really often, especially when we’re having…

An angel food cake with a mouth-watering salted caramel pecan frosting has won first place and a grand prize at a Pennsylvania cake contest, wowing judges and netizens alike, but none more so than the baker herself. Sheila Suhan of Scottsdale, Westmoreland County, had entered the Pennsylvania Farm Show’s Incredible Angel Food Cake Contest before…

By Bethany Jean Clement From The Seattle Times Seattle—I was making my own birthday cake. Why was this happening?! It was so very clearly wrong. One should never make one’s own birthday cake; it should arrive by the magic that is love, floating through the air with candles glowing, accompanied by a song sung in…

Submitted by Rona Simmons, Georgia Experimentation is the order of the day at my home on Thanksgiving. Yes, a turkey sits proudly at the center of the table and, yes, it’s the same reliable brand my mother declared non-negotiable decades ago. But each year, I stuff and baste my turkey with the product of unusual recipes…

Charlie and another waiter must become bakers when the regular bakers go out on strike. The strikers put dynamite in a piece of bread, which is delivered to the cake counter. It winds up in the oven and explodes. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films:…

By Jacques Kelly From Baltimore Sun Baltimore—The recent death of beloved baker George Simon, who had shops in Cockeysville and previously Taylor Avenue and Loch Raven Boulevard, came at a time of year when he would have been eliciting smiles with his peach cakes. As longtime Baltimoreans know, the peach cake is one of the…

A sixth grader, adopted alongside his brother from an orphanage in Sierra Leone, has had a series of “firsts” since starting his new life in the United States. But seeing his first-ever birthday cake was about more than he could handle. Abraham broke into floods of grateful tears as his adoptive mom, Jamie Walker, brought…

If your favorite part of cake is the sponge instead of the icing (yes, those people exist) then castella cake is the dessert for you. A popular confection in Japan, castella is a honey sponge cake that’s made by pouring batter into rectangular or square molds and baking it to perfection before cutting it into…

Whether you’re using it to make cake, pancakes or cupcakes, boxed cake mix is a common pantry staple that requires only a few additional ingredients to make a dessert the whole family will love. But there is a way to transform the taste and texture of cake mix into an impressive dessert: condensed milk. Condensed milk is evaporated…