We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Making even the simplest cakes can sometimes be fickle. Baking is a science, and not paying attention to details like measurements, rest times ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do you know that the traditional carrot cake originated from a Chinese Teochew dish called Char Kueh (fried rice cake) and was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...