From flourless cakes to silky mousses and salty-sweet bars, these sweet treats are rich, chocolaty, and downright delicious.

Pastry chef Claire Saffitz has cracked the code to an irresistible moist-tender cake that’s not too sweet and not too dense I once read an interview with French chef Alain Ducasse, in which he said, ...

Baking season is officially on the horizon, and our pantries are getting prepped. With cooler days ahead and fall gatherings lining the calendar, it’s prime time to stock up on essentials. One item we ...

Rich, chocolaty, and so very festive, this chocolate cake with ganache frosting is worthy of a party. Ganache has many applications in pastry, and here Chef Paola Velez uses it to make the ...

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 ...

Treat yourself to a more complex dessert with our blood orange frosted chocolate cake. It is perfectly complex and incredibly delicious!

You know that flaky, buttery crunch you get from a really good bakery pastry? Puff pastry gives you that, and it makes you ...

I’ve lived in Austin off and on for the past thirty years. My wife’s a Texas native. Our current home is Portland, Oregon, where—as you may have read—the barbecue’s not bad at all. But whenever we get ...