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 ...

I'm as big a fan as anyone of heavy, butter-rich cakes – fat slices of madeira, Victoria sandwiches and doorstop wedges of fondant-covered birthday cake. I've even adopted "more butter is better" as a ...

Jack Rear is a senior lifestyle writer who joined the Telegraph in 2018. He reports on practically anything about modern life and believes in the fundamental importance of good news to our lives. He ...

B irthday parties, Easter soirees, coronations: They’re all perfect occasions for a good layer cake. Rising tiers of delicate genoise, or sponge cake, layered with ethereal French butter cream make ...

Genoise cake GENOISE is an Italian sponge cake made with vanilla, sugar, eggs and flour. Baked and cooled, the genoise is a simple cake recipe, spruced up with butter-cream frosting. You can flavour ...

This vanilla sponge cake is the best sponge cake I’ve ever made! The cake is pillowy, soft, spongy, and yet, a bit moist. The ...

When autumn comes, a whole new season of entertaining begins. Small dinner parties, club and charity meetings, cocktail get-togethers, big holiday open houses. No matter the size and type of event, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keriliwi via Unsplash When I learned that baking powder wasn’t invented until the late 1840s, I wondered how cakes ― which need ...

Before starting work at the Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School in New York, I would never have thought about making a genoise. To be truthful, I had never heard of this French dessert. Later, I ...

I'm as big a fan as anyone of heavy, butter-rich cakes – fat slices of madeira, Victoria sandwiches and doorstop wedges of fondant-covered birthday cake. I've even adopted "more butter is better" as a ...