When I was in high school, I worked at a popular cake boutique in town. Every Saturday morning, opulent, multi-tiered wedding cakes would emerge from the back, freshly decorated for their big debut.

You’ve seen it, you know it, you’ve been stumped by it — the “is it cake” viral videos where almost anything can be a seemingly normal object and then with the slice of a knife viewers discover that ...

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"A cake can turn any Tuesday into an occasion," writes Zoë François in the just-released "Zoë Bakes Cakes" (Ten Speed Press, $30). "Cake is the way I tell my friends and family that I love them." The ...

Last week, in the midst of some stressful deadlines, I got a request to bake a cake for a dear family member’s birthday party. I knew I would have to rein in my ambitions, but was determined not to ...