This Beignets with choux pastry dough recipe came to me on an old, tattered recipe card. I knew right away it was a keeper. Simple, straightforward, and absolutely delicious. Sometimes the best ...

Puff pastry is hands down one of the best shortcuts in baking: it does all the heavy lifting while you get to look like a dessert genius. These recipes are crazy simple but taste like you spent hours ...

Every once in a while you stumble upon a culinary trick that changes your life in the kitchen. Learning how to peel ginger with a spoon. Finding out how to save a broken sauce. Figuring out how to ...

This rich, buttery pastry crust perfectly fits Russell Cronkhite's baking dish of choice for quiche: an oval, 21/2-quart, 2-inch deep, ovenproof ceramic dish with a 10-cup capacity. The large size of ...

Note: This is one of pastry chef Rachel Swan's favorite offerings at her Minneapolis shop Pie & Mighty. "We don't make it often," she said, "but wow, it is just everything you'd want in a pie." The ...