This twice-monthly column presents recipes and tips to make baking in the mountains successful. Need a crowd-pleaser? Look no further; everyone seems to like this pumpkin cake. Moist, tender ...

By Melissa Clark Whether it’s called a loaf cake, tea cake, poundcake or one of those slyly named “breads” of the banana-pumpkin ... baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon each salt and baking soda ...

If you want a cake that showcases pumpkin in its lovely simplicity, make the recipe without the espresso filling ... Generously grease your Bundt pan with a baking spray that contains flour ...

The secret to your best-ever pound cake involves skipping a crucial step: preheating the oven before the cake goes in. Although preheating usually begins the baking process, heating the oven once ...

It’s pound ... cake, Grandma Ingrid’s sponge cake. 5. The original recipe makes wayyyy more than we’re used to. The original recipe makes 4 pounds of batter, which gets even bigger after ...