For some chefs, the magic is in the crossover. Yudi Ela / Courtesy of Otter Scallops Divorciado at the NYC restaurant Otter. There’s a cliché in the restaurant industry that line cooks are afraid of ...

Choosing the right butter when baking is likely a far more important consideration than you realize. Here's the best butter ...

Lucky for you, puff pastry is a versatile dough that can be made into a variety of delicious treats. From doughnuts to pies ...

There's very little private puff pastry-making anymore. I'm not even sure that many people nowadays could reliably identify puff pastry as puff pastry. Immersed as I am in the stuff, I've been slow to ...

Scrolling through your social media feed, you've no doubt seen all manner of golden puff pastry nestled over a variety of sweet and savory fillings and baked to flaky perfection. It’s no surprise this ...

Premade puff pastry is the store-bought secret ingredient that transforms intimidating baking projects into attainable tasks.

he final flourish of your meal arrives at the table — a rich pudding of chocolate cremeux ("creamy" in French), candied pistachios, a crumble made from ground pistachios, and both dehydrated and ...

Denmark often has topped the United Nations’ annual World Happiness Report, which rates countries’ degree of contentedness. Surely, one reason is Danish pastry. Eating this tender treat is a joy, of ...

If you’re ready to plunge into the craft of making pastries, there are few books as thorough as “The Art of French Pastry” (Knopf, $40), by master pastry chef Jacquy Pfeiffer with local author Martha ...