Pastry chefs like Dominique Ansel, François Payard and Andrea Litvin spend their days crafting up delicious sweets. But what are their favorite desserts? We find out.

Pastries and pies, cookies and cake, tarts, and treats…these “dessert stomach” goods are a gift from culinary science we can thank pastry chefs for. Specially trained in the science of ...

So without a pastry chef, how does a restaurant not only make dessert work but also make it shine as something more than an afterthought?

Dessert chef Alice Medrich shares some tips and recipes from her new cookbook. June 04, 2012— -- intro: From cakes to cookies, dessert chef Alice Medrich is the queen of all things chocolate ...

To encourage pastry chefs to revisit their offerings, Drescher and his colleagues at the CIA have been promoting a novel idea in the dessert department, a concept they call the pastry flip.