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If you want to know how to make your very own homemade biccies, here are our favourite biscuit and cookie recipes to try.
Smith Island Bakery, home of one of the most popular iterations of the Smith Island cake, is now up for sale.
The cake is a doctored-up boxed mix, which makes it super simple to throw one (or two) together. By the presentation and flavor, you’d never know it wasn’t a cake you baked fully from scratch.
Chocolate angel food cake is a great cake choice for summer. The cake is light and goes well with ice cream, cold whipped cream or crème fraiche.
Try one (or more) of our favorite coffee cake recipes, from classic cinnamon-streusel to inventive rhubarb. All are crowd-pleasers ready for brunch, a coffee break, or dessert.
A Dear Abby reader asks for advice on how to deal with her adult daughter being unappreciative of the cake she made her.
Advice Dear Abby: Woman chews out her mother for baking the ‘wrong’ birthday cake Published: Jun. 12, 2025, 4:00 a.m.
DEAR ABBY: My 40-year-old daughter is on weight-loss injections and a no-sugar diet. I offered to bake her a sugar-free cheesecake, and she agreed, but she asked me to make a “tester” cake ...
A mom tried to accommodate her daughter's special diet by baking a sugar-free cheesecake for her birthday — but the celebration turned sour after a misunderstanding over the dessert. Dear Abby ...
Tender chocolate cake, a boozy cherry filling and whipped cream are the hallmarks of a nostalgic Black Forest cake.
The tradition of saving a piece of your wedding cake for your first anniversary dates back to the 19th century.