This is the first official installment of For Goodness Cake, a monthly cake column from pastry chef Joy Cho. Each month we’ll give you a recipe for cake that is not only relatively easy to make but ...

Tender dough, a pleasantly bitter cocoa filling and lots of crunchy crumbs on top make up this kokosh, the old-school Hungarian Jewish precursor to the modern babka. A soft dough, which can be made ...

This New York coffee cake, with its large, delicious crumbs, is our idea of an anytime treat. New Yorkers like to think they invented the crumb cake, but it actually originated in Germany. Whatever ...

Melissa Clark argues the secret is in a base layer of cake that’s delicious enough to eat on its own. By Melissa Clark Most crumb cakes are more about the crumbs than the cake. A thick, nubby topping ...

A birthday cake can be any flavor. Yet “birthday cake” has become its own flavor. You can celebrate your birthday, or any day, with birthday cake ice cream, birthday cake Oreos, birthday cake vodka, ...

The best New York–style crumb cake is nearly as much crumb as it is cake. This recipe follows that formula, just with one seasonal swap: Instead of vanilla cake on the bottom, plush pumpkin cake hops ...

I’m a sweets-for-breakfast guy. When I need grab- and-go food, blueberry muffins are what I make. When I have time, buttermilk biscuits with jam hit the spot. When I want something that will last, I ...

If there’s one dessert that reminds Salon’s resident pastry chef Meghan McGarry of home, it’s crumb cake. “Crumb cake has a certain nostalgia to it, because there was always a crumb cake in my house ...