Picture, if you will, the queen bee cake, a beautiful chocolate and gold pastry topped with tiny marzipan bees flitting over angel-hair pasta. Or a nostalgia cake covered in crystallized white lilac ...

You can have your cake and cook it too if you follow the rules laid down by Rose Levy Beranbaum in her recently published “The Cake Bible” (William Morrow and Co., 1988; $25). Its 556 pages of ...

This recipe, which features in the Eynsham Cookbook, was copied from an old family Bible. Jennifer Harland, an Eynsham resident known for her superb home-made cakes and biscuits, tested the recipe and ...

Rose Levy Beranbaum may be a lauded cake-baking authority seen on PBS and The Today Show, but her first attempt at baking, a velvet spice cake from "The Joy of Cooking," was a resounding ...