Editor’s note: High altitude makes cookies spread in the pan, cakes fall and few baked goods turn out as they do at sea level. This twice-monthly column presents ...

This time last year, I began a trip through the French countryside that would last all summer. It was no longer spring, but it wasn’t quite summer either. It was that bonus in-between season called ...

Usually filled with black cherry jam or pastry cream, Koa Duncan, pastry chef at Water Grill, fills her Gateau Basque (cake of the house — in the Basque region of Spain) with caramelized Granny Smith ...

At Bar Boulud, the tart is served with creme Anglaise, a vanilla custard sauce, a few brandied cherries, and whipped cream. At home, a handful of raspberries or blackberries alongside each slice is ...

Gateau Basque is kind of like a tart, or a pie, or a cookie -- and the filled cake is one of the more unusual desserts in cookbook author Dorie Greenspan's repertoire. "It's a dry cake, but delicious, ...

Love any of these recipes? Tap "Save" to add them to MyRecipes, your new, free recipe box for Food & Wine. Frozen puff pastry and tinned anchovies make easy work of these popular Spanish appetizers.

Dubbed the Basque Cake Festival, the town hosts cake-making workshops and a competition for the best Basque cake over the course of a weekend fit for gourmands from every corner of the globe. While ...