When I learned that baking powder wasn’t invented until the late 1840s, I wondered how cakes ― which need some type of leavening agent to produce a fluffy, soft crumb ― used to get made. Ancient Roman ...

Maybe because she’s too busy partying in her Manolo Blahnik shoes, punk princess Marie Antoinette, as conceived by filmmaker Sofia Coppola, never offers cake to the angry rabble. But she does put away ...

Chef Sunshine Puey Pengson’s heart-shaped Napoleon cake has a shortbread cookie base and a chocolate or vanilla bean custard cream filling. It is beautifully decorated with flowers, fruits, candies ...