A good tea cake can make any day better. However, most cake recipes use maida (refined flour) or processed white sugar, which a lot of people want to avoid. But you don’t have to worry any longer ...

Maida is a refined wheat flour made by removing the outer bran and germ of the wheat grain. What remains is the inner part, ...

Sweet tooth is hard to please. It won't settle for plain fruits or fruit yogurt or other healthy dishes posing as desserts. It still yearns for cakes and cookies of the world. But we applaud your ...

What's inside a cookbook counts, but we still judge a book by its cover. Which is why even those books that should be on everyone's shelves, like Maida Heatter's 1997 classic Cakes (itself a ...

1. Adjust a rack one-third up from the bottom of the oven. Set the oven at 350 degrees. Butter an 8½-by-4½-by-2¼-inch loaf pan (6-cup capacity). Dust it with fine, dry breadcrumbs, tapping out the ...