My mother claims my first word (other than, you know, ma and pa) was "chocolate". While I have no memory of the incident, why would she lie about something like this? This is all, of course, to...

Christmas is just a week away--which begs the question, why don't you have something sweet in your mouth, right now? Here's a batch of sweet ideas to get you baking! Doughnut stop believing: these doughnut snowmen are an adorable way to justify...

Sweet infatuation has hit again: CakeSpy has a bakery crush. And that crush is called Crumb {a bakery}, and it is (regrettably for this Seattleite) all the way in Atlanta. I came across this special order bakery via the site You Are What You...

Karen H. Rohde is the owner of Bredenbeck’s Bakery, a Philadelphia tradition since 1889. Initially opened by a Bavarian immigrant baker, Bredenbeck’s was later turned over to the bakery’s longtime employees, Otto and Walter Haug, Rohde’s...

How many times has this happened to you: a delicious recipe calls for not quite a full can of almond paste, and now you're left with a strange amount, not quite enough to make a full recipe of something, but enough that you feel like you want to use it...

Watch out, Gayle--you've got some competition. Oprah and CakeSpy are, like, practically BFF! OK, this might be a slight stretch. However, I am delighted to report that the January issue of O Magazine has a feature on Serious Eats (a site to which...