With Spring approaching, we have been craving dessert that's refreshing, bright, and beautiful to look at. Lucky for us, this cake fits the bill perfectly. This rustic dessert gets a lemony treatment ...

This dessert is all about a startling combination of flavors—apricots, smoky Lapsang souchong tea, chocolate, maraschino liqueur, and cream. Every element of this dessert can be made in advance.

In a small bowl, stir together all sauce ingredients. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour or until serving time. (Makes about 1 ¼ cups sauce). Preheat oven to 400°F. In a medium bowl, combine all ...

It’s a simple cake with all of summer’s prints in it. The best part? When it’s covered in strawberry sauce. With all the complex recipes around, sometimes it is comforting to go back to simple ones ...

A nice, easy cake that will get rid of some of the lemons off you tree in the backyard... Preheat oven to 170 C. Line a loaf tin with baking paper as a precaution against the cake sticking. Cream ...

To make the cake, preheat the oven to 350 degrees (metal or glass pan). Combine ginger bread mix, water, butter grated ginger and egg. Stir mixture vigorously about 2 minutes, scraping corners ...

If sunshine had a dessert form, it’d be this lemon pudding poke cake. It’s bright, smooth, and just the kind of treat that disappears fast at family potlucks, spring parties and summer backyard BBQs.

Lent is a time when less can mean more, especially in the kitchen. Going without need not be faced with a frown. Let dietary restrictions spur creativity and boost flavor, however modest the meal.

Last Wednesday at Union Square Greenmarket, the flagship farmers market of New York City’s Greenmarket network, only 23 farmers showed up. Who could blame them? It was 16 degrees at 8 a.m., and with ...

Note: Adapted from the upcoming cookbook “The Artful Vegan: Fresh Flavors From the Millennium Restaurant,” by Eric Tucker with Bruce Enloe, desserts by Amy Pearce (Ten Speed Press, November 2003).

Two crab cakes on a plate garnished with chives - David Scott/Getty Images A well-made jumbo lump crab cake can steal the show on your dinner table all on its own, but a flavorful sauce that ...