THE CAKE RECIPE from the back of the Queen Guinevere Cake Flour bag has become my go-to recipe for party cakes of all sorts. At some point, I started wondering just where that anonymous recipe came ...

This plain, buttery cake, full of berries, is my top pick for snacking on a summer afternoon. Because the berries in the batter tend to sink to the bottom when the cake bakes, scatter more berries on ...

Vanilla, plain vanilla--it’s the flavor Americans just can’t object to. We smell it and we think of comfortable home cooking. Rosewater, though, is strange and exotic. Many even find it oddly ...