Maybe because she’s too busy partying in her Manolo Blahnik shoes, punk princess Marie Antoinette, as conceived by filmmaker Sofia Coppola, never offers cake to the angry rabble. But she does put away ...

When autumn comes, a whole new season of entertaining begins. Small dinner parties, club and charity meetings, cocktail get-togethers, big holiday open houses. No matter the size and type of event, a ...

One of the requests from my culinary students this year was to make sponge cake. To be honest, it isn't my favourite cake to prepare, preferring rustic madeira-style cakes topped with seasonal fruit.

I'm as big a fan as anyone of heavy, butter-rich cakes – fat slices of madeira, Victoria sandwiches and doorstop wedges of fondant-covered birthday cake. I've even adopted "more butter is better" as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keriliwi via Unsplash When I learned that baking powder wasn’t invented until the late 1840s, I wondered how cakes ― which need ...

The light and fluffy multi-tiered sponge cake has many forms and variations THE Great British Bake Off is back on our screens and it’s got us all inspired in the kitchen. But what is the infamous ...

I'm as big a fan as anyone of heavy, butter-rich cakes – fat slices of madeira, Victoria sandwiches and doorstop wedges of fondant-covered birthday cake. I've even adopted "more butter is better" as a ...

THE Great British Bake Off is back on our screens and it’s got us all inspired in the kitchen. But what is the infamous genoise sponge all about, and how do you go about making one..? A Genoise sponge ...