Pastry chef Paola Velez makes olive oil cake with earthy buckwheat flour, frosts it with vanilla buttercream, then garnishes it with edible flowers and chewy candied orange slices dredged in a mixture ...

About a month ago, in a fit of seasonal optimism, I made a pumpkin bread that tasted exactly like what it was: pumpkin bread. Perfectly nice, perfectly one-note — all cinnamon and sugar and nostalgia.

Fruit is nature's candy that comes in a miraculous array of colors, shapes, sizes, and textures. But what if we can make that sweet treat ... sweeter? Well, you're in luck because that's where candied ...

The holidays are a time of excess, and nowhere is that more evident than in the food we cook in home kitchens, give as gifts and enjoy at parties. Yet much of that food — by some estimates as much as ...

These cookies are Roxanne Lecrivain’s mini version of stollen, the traditional German Christmas bread studded with dried and candied fruit and filled with marzipan. Stollen’s “not hard if you follow ...

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