New York Times bestselling author Erin Jeanne McDowell has been baking tasty treats for holiday tables since she was a teenager in her grandmother’s Kansas kitchen. Now, she teaches thousands of ...

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Tucked away on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, Covington offers that rare combination of affordability and livability that has become increasingly elusive in today’s retirement landscape. With ...

No yeast, no proofing, just a big Bundt cake — cloaked in cream cheese frosting, of course — from Genevieve Ko.

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Chef Jimmy Gentry said what makes P.O. Press' butter cake special is it has different textures: the sugar, the cake and the ...

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Three students have spent their fall semester refining 100 recipes from the library archive to put into a cookbook.

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To many folks, fruitcake has all the appeal of a doorstop. Humorist Calvin Trillin once said that fruitcake has been baked only once and regifted ever since. But fruitcake, the gr ...

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