Edited version of a story first published Dec. 15, 2009: This old-fashioned charmer is from Heirloom Cooking with the Brass Sisters by Marilynn Brass & Sheila Brass (Black Dog & Leventhal, $29.95).

Do you know that the traditional carrot cake originated from a Chinese Teochew dish called Char Kueh (fried rice cake) and was later brought over to Singapore by early Teochew immigrants in the 1950s?

Make sure you have a wok and lid big enough to accommodate a 22 to 23 centimetre round cake tin. Place a cooling rack in the wok to sit the baking tin on. Fill with enough water so there's about two ...

The simplest way to transform a ho-hum sweet into something that jumps out at customers is to make it look like a different foodstuff altogether. I've lost count of how many bland creampuff-like ...

We tried "Morinaga Milk Cocoa Steamed Cake" and "Morinaga Milk Cocoa Chiffon Cake" out of the "Morinaga Milk Cocoa Series" jointly developed by Shikishima Pan and Morinaga, released from Saturday, ...

This cake from chef-owner Kathy Fang of Fang, a modern Chinese restaurant in San Francisco’s SoMa district, is one of her family’s favorite desserts during Lunar New Year celebrations, which fall on ...

Everytime someone serves fishcakes, I can't help thinking how nice it would be if they were made with meat! Well here it is. It works with beef mince or lamb mince, but the 'veal' mince is best ...