Q: My mother has been looking for a recipe that her mom used to make. It’s called Hot Milk Cake. She said that her mom probably started making it around the 1940s when she lived in Virginia. None of ...

Sometimes the best desserts are the simple ones — like a moist sponge cake with sweet, seasonal berries. Hot milk cake is a Depression-era dessert that was popular in the South and New England. It's a ...

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Dear SOS: This is an urgent request for the recipe for Chocolate Malted Milk Cake and icing that you published in the 1990s. I have moved back to Canada, and I dream of this cake all the time. Pat ...

Note: This model butter cake recipe is perhaps the best you’ll ever eat--three sumptuous chocolate layers. Sylvia Thompson, who developed the recipe for her “The Birthday Cake Book” (Chronicle Books: ...

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. It’s August, when berries, peaches, and plums are at their juicy peak. That means that fruity desserts ...