Le crostatine alla crema, those famous custard tart recipes from Italy, are like little bites of heaven. Really good stuff.

Six more sensational creations in our final mouthwatering extract from the new Great British Bake Off book Makes one large tart For the rich sweet pastry 320g (11½oz) plain flour 45g (1½oz) icing ...

Make the most of fresh British berries with these simple but sensational puds Serves 8-10 It's easy to make your own lavender sugar. Fill a clean, dry jar with caster sugar and add 2-3tsp of fresh or ...

The non-Asian mother-in-law of a dear friend of mine once told me that “the Chinese don’t have desserts, not real ones.” The implication that I (a Chinese American) was other, different, and weird, ...

Finally, the quintessential British baking challenge for the contestants: pies and tarts. “Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie” doesn't mean that it was a poultry pie; it means that the the pie ...

The bliss of first bites, illicit cherries jubilee, Miyazaki’s gluttons ... and the crookie? Oh, what hath the Cronut wrought? I’m Laurie Ochoa, general manager of L.A. Times Food, with this week’s ...