It’s easy to become a better baker if you have these kitchen tools. Liv Dansky has worked for Food & Wine since 2019 as a recipe tester and developer and, more recently, as a writer. Her work can be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shestock / Getty Images Every home baker worth their salt probably knows liquid measuring cups and dry measuring cups are not the ...

Baking is all about precision, which in a way makes it very democratic for home cooks. If you're willing to make exact ...

Pastries and pies, cookies and cake, tarts and treats … these “dessert stomach” goods are a gift from culinary science we can thank pastry chefs for. Specially trained in the science of baking (and ...

You might think that professional pastry chefs bake everything from scratch — that they’ve come up with a recipe for every dough, frosting, and filling. But even the pros appreciate a good shortcut … ...

Tremendously popular and widely consumed, chocolate is an essential ingredient on any respectable dessert menu. But with almost all restaurants offering at least one chocolate dessert at any given ...

Unlike most pastry chefs, who focus their attention and talent on one menu, Adam Thomas is tasked with quite a different challenge. As executive pastry chef of The Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs ...

Before piping stripes of burnt honey cremeux onto a crisp, sugar-dusted tortilla, Crystal Kass pauses to explain how she got thinking about her latest sweet and savory dessert at the Melrose ...

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Pamela is a freelance food and travel writer based in Astoria, Queens. While she writes about most things edible and potable (and accessories dedicated to those topics,) her real areas of expertise ...