Dessert ideas for your spring fruit, plus readers’ favorite sweet and savory uses for lemons. By Tejal Rao We usually focus on savory recipes here, but I’m a former pastry cook, and I love dessert. On ...

For the better part of the 20th century, the word lemon evoked bitterness, just a sour citrus that needed copious amounts of sugar to make something palatable to sell at sidewalk lemonade stands. No ...

This cake, inspired by the great baker Maida Heatter’s recipe, gets hits of lemon three times: zest and juice in the cake, a clear soaking syrup that seeps into the cake and, finally, a creamy, thick ...