This time last year, I began a trip through the French countryside that would last all summer. It was no longer spring, but it wasn’t quite summer either. It was that bonus in-between season called ...

1. Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt and keep at hand. 2. Working in a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment or in a bowl with a hand mixer, beat the butter and both sugars together ...

Editor’s note: High altitude makes cookies spread in the pan, cakes fall and few baked goods turn out as they do at sea level. This twice-monthly column presents ...

Gateau Basque is kind of like a tart, or a pie, or a cookie -- and the filled cake is one of the more unusual desserts in cookbook author Dorie Greenspan's repertoire. "It's a dry cake, but delicious, ...

1 egg mixed with 1 tablespoon of milk, for brushing MAKE THE DOUGH: In a medium bowl, whisk the flour with the baking powder and salt. In a standing mixer fitted with a paddle, beat the butter with ...

Australian Gourmet Traveller Spanish cake recipe for gâteau Basque (Pastel Vasco). In the Basque country, this cake can be found with either cherries (or cherry jam) or pastry cream, but rarely both.

Usually filled with black cherry jam or pastry cream, Koa Duncan, pastry chef at Water Grill, fills her Gateau Basque (cake of the house — in the Basque region of Spain) with caramelized Granny Smith ...

At Bar Boulud, the tart is served with creme Anglaise, a vanilla custard sauce, a few brandied cherries, and whipped cream. At home, a handful of raspberries or blackberries alongside each slice is ...