One of my favorite desserts growing up was my aunt’s chocolate-amaretto bundt cake. It’s rich and fudgy crumb, speckled with melty chocolate chips and perfumed with a faint almond aroma, was unlike ...

Instant pudding mix was always in my grandma's pantry, but I hardly ever saw her make pudding. That's because it was part of many semi-homemade tricks she employed in her baking. A devotee of the Cake ...

Brownies fall into my personal database of “perfect foods.” It doesn’t matter if they’re frosting-topped and cosmic-sprinkled, made from a Ghirardelli box mix procured from a college dorm’s ...