For baking cakes, this type of flour is an excellent middle ground between standard whole wheat flour and all-purpose flour. You still get all of the health benefits of the former, but with the taste ...

There are many different types of flour out there—which one is right for your baking project?

There’s an episode of the late-’90s PBS series “Baking With Julia” that features Berkeley-based pastry chef Alice Medrich (in some circles, fondly referred to as the Queen of Chocolate) and one of her ...

Hello to all of our faithful readers. This week, I would like to rerun a couple recipes that some of you have been asking about. Next week I’ll be filling you in on more of what is happening in the ...

Muffins are like a baker’s delicious shorthand. Mixed in minutes, baked in about the time it takes to make a pot of coffee, the rows of little cakes can come out of the oven and straight to the ...

If you’ve got a big bag of whole-wheat flour and want to use it in more than that one recipe you found online, you might need a little help coming up with ideas. You could try a recipe designed ...

Layers of chocolate and peanut butter cover the cake — but you’ll notice that in the pan my chocolate doesn’t quite stretch over all the peanut butter. The peanut butter layer went onto the cake when ...