This impressive layer cake is a traditional Polish dessert called karpatka, featured in baker Laurel Kratochvila’s new cookbook, Dobre Dobre. Its gorgeous, airy choux-pastry crusts sandwich a silky, ...

Tips and techniques for keeping layers, sheets, Bundts, and other cakes moist and delicious. Who wants to go to the trouble of baking a cake only to end up with a dry or dense disappointment? Baking ...

Whether you stack together two cake layers or six, bringing any one of these showstopping cakes to the table is an act of pure joy. Jodie Kautzmann is an editor, baker, and confectioner with more than ...

She explains: “My goal was to apply our pastry philosophy, focused on clean, not-too-sweet flavors and harmonious textures, to the construction of layer cakes. After several months of testing, I ...