I like to say that everything I know about baking I learned from Maida Heatter. Sure, there were other outstanding teachers along the way (Martha, Julia, and Dorie among them), but no one taught me as ...

Maida Heatter, who was known throughout the food world as the "Queen of Cake," passed away this week at the age of 102. A prolific writer and self-taught chef, Heatter spent the majority of her life ...

This triple-layer chocolate torte, the newspaper’s most requested dessert in 1972, was just one of the recipes developed by the legendary author, who died on Thursday at 102. By Margaux Laskey Maida ...

When Maida Heatter (May-da HEAT-ter) died this past June, the world lost a self-taught baker and cookbook author whose commitment to precision baking was well-known throughout the cookbook industry, ...

We lost a giant when cookbook author Maida Heatter died this month at the age of 102. Despite never having enjoyed the universal influence that can come from a television show, Heatter still managed ...

I PROMISED MY younger kids we could bake together, handed each one a reliable cookbook and figured I’d break the tie vote. Unexpectedly, the 9-year-old on the couch browsing Kristen Miglore’s ...

Maida Heatter, known for most of her life as “the Queen of Cake,” was first put in the national spotlight in 1968 not solely for her confections but also for her wry sense of humor: She had her ...

“I heard a doctor talking on television about the dangers of stress. The doctor listed ways of coping with stress. Exercise. Diet. Yoga. Take a walk. I yelled, ‘Bake cookies.’” That’s from the very ...

After “Maida Heatter’s Book of Great Desserts” came out in 1974, she ruled the baking world. It was an era when most home cooks made their own desserts, even if they were relying on cake mixes. Those ...

Maida Heatter, the spirited self-taught baker and cookbook author who handed out meticulously wrapped brownies as business cards and won the admiration of home bakers and famous chefs alike, died June ...

Maida Heatter, the spirited self-taught baker and cookbook author who handed out meticulously wrapped brownies as business cards and won the admiration of home bakers and famous chefs alike, died June ...