Remember the poke-and-pour cakes of another era, using colorful gelatin and white cake? We’re poking and pouring here too, but with a brown sugar caramel that echoes the flavors of the moist date cake ...

Make the Cake: Preheat the oven to 325°. Butter and flour a 9-by-3-inch round cake pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. Butter and flour the paper. In a medium microwave-safe bowl, cover the ...

I often think that I was born with a date in my mouth, because soft, plump and dark Medjool dates are so abundant in Morocco! Prized for their rich caramelized flavor, dates are served at weddings and ...

Find more stories like this one on our podcast, Here & Now Anytime. When you ask Joan Smith, owner of Rancho Meladuco in Mecca, California, about dates, you’re met with an onslaught of adjectives: ...

Despite the jokes, we enjoy fruitcake in our house. Likewise, the dark fruit flavors of mincemeat, plum puddings, stollen and lebkuchen. They prove a bold contrast to all the sugar cookies, peppermint ...

Note: "When my friend Steven Brown asked me to design a dessert program for his now-famous Tilia restaurant, he had two requests: There had to be a butterscotch pudding and a sticky toffee-date cake," ...

A few months ago, I came across a recipe for a date cake. I hadn’t cooked much with dates but was intrigued by how this cake was made. Dates are softened in simmering water and pureed into a paste ...

There’s just something about spring that makes me crave carrot cake. Maybe it’s the pastel everything, maybe it’s the six Easter events my kids somehow ended up in — or maybe it’s just a nostalgic way ...

Best Eggless Cake Recipes: A piece of cake holds the power to make everything right. Wouldn't you agree? There's nothing quite like biting into a light, moist cake with a tender crumb. Most cakes rely ...