This cake, inspired by the great baker Maida Heatter’s recipe, gets hits of lemon three times: zest and juice in the cake, a clear soaking syrup that seeps into the cake and, finally, a creamy, thick ...

Adapted from The Foods of the Greek Islands. My grandmother, mother, and aunt used to make this cake for family feasts, often cutting it into two layers with a piece of string and filling it with ...

A two-minute lemon syrup soaks this simple dessert and infuses it with citrus sweetness. The fruit’s floral zest seasons the tender cake batter, which is rich with butter and lots of ground pistachios ...

This quick-to-assemble moist lemon cake is bursting with citrus flavor: There's finely grated lemon zest in the cake batter, a bright lemon syrup brushed on the hot cake and a thick lemon glaze poured ...

It’s been well-established that I’m not the baker in my family. My 14-year-old daughter is. I also don’t have a huge sweet tooth, so when I tell you she just made what might be the best cake I’ve ever ...

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Preheat the Oven: Twenty minutes or more before baking, set an oven rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat the oven to 350°F/175°C (325°F/160°C if using a dark pan). Toast and Grind the ...

1) Using the mixer fitted with the paddle cream the butter and the sugar until pale yellow and ribbons form from the beater. Add the eggs one by one beating well after each addition. 2) With the ...