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Cake

Simon's cakes evoke the baroque still-lifes of Dutch Masters such as Ambrosius Bosschaert.

This Cake Artist Makes Confectionery Look Like Classical Paintings

Julie Simon’s sugar flowers are edible horticultural wonders.

Rohini Chaki May 28, 2019

An illustration of the famous Pie-Girl Dinner from <em>The New York World</em>.

The Girl Who Jumped Out of a Pie and Into a Gilded Age Morality Tale

Susie Johnson sparked America's obsession with erotic cake dancing.

Reina Gattuso April 25, 2019

Hiyoko

These bird-shaped cakes once fueled miners in Japan's Fukuoka region.

Emily Dickinson's Black Cake

This brandy-spiked recipe reveals the reclusive poet was actually a well-known baker.

While most frozen Charlottes were fairly small, some were more than a foot long.

The Haunting History of 'Frozen Charlotte' Dolls

They were baked into cakes and dropped into baths.

Anne Ewbank March 4, 2019

Researchers attempt to grow wild orchids in greenhouses.

In Zambia, a Craze for a Traditional Treat Is Endangering Wild Orchids

Researchers are teaming up to save chikanda.

Reina Gattuso March 1, 2019

Financiers

These almond cakes resembling gold ingots were sold near the Paris stock exchange.

Louisiana Russian Cake

Recycling comes to dessert, with delicious outcomes.

The cast of <em>My Fair Lady</em>with Baddeley cake in 1959, with Julie Andrews on cake-cutting duty.

How £100 Bought an Obscure British Actor 224 Years of Cake and Fame

Thespians, writers, and princes all dined on Baddeley cake.

Anne Ewbank January 4, 2019

Smith Island.

Smith Island, Maryland

Smith Island

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

Christmas Cake and Cheese

In Yorkshire, the holidays usher in this salty-sweet combo.

Smearcase

A few Baltimore bakeries still serve this cheesecake named after 19th-century cottage cheese.

A pile of winsome soul cakes.

The British Bake Off That's Resurrecting a Forgotten Medieval Cake

Competitors are baking soul cakes, a bygone Halloween treat.

Abbey Perreault December 10, 2018

Russian Napoleon Cake

This traditional dessert commemorates the country's sweet taste of victory over the French emperor in 1812.

Bebinca

Goa's signature baked pudding cake is multicultural and multilayered.

Cake Pull

At some New Orleans weddings, bridesmaids predict their futures with these hidden charms.

Anthill Cake

This beloved Russian dessert is the brainchild of Soviet-era housewives with meat grinders.

This sandwich cake comes with prawns, egg, caviar, and cucumber.

Smörgåstårta

Meet Sweden's savory “sandwich cake.”