Crisp chocolate cookies slathered with chocolate buttercream and crowned with toasted walnuts. From Rose Levy Beranbaum.

Brownies in cookie form.

Pretty in pink chocolate birthday cake with dahlias and macarons; rich chocolate cake with Swiss meringue buttercream, to die for.

Cocoa Meringue Mushrooms – Crisp, light & sweet mushrooms for your Christmas cookie platter and for your Yule Log.

A complete photo tutorial for making Kouigns Amann, a laminated French pastry bursting with butter and caramelized sugar.

Cream Cheese Butter Cake with Raspberry Buttercream. Recipe for the cake from Rose Levy Beranbaum’s The Baking Bible.

Lemon oil, zest, and a simple syrup made with freshly squeezed juice ensure bright lemon flavor

Orange Poppy Seed Pound Cake

This cake has an intense coconut flavor and a cloud of whipped cream on top. Dreamy!

Chocolate Cake – How to eat this and still be fit?

Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Whipped Cream Cake – no butter and oil in the recipe!

Dark Chocolate Orange Cointreau Chiffon – the softest orange chiffon, lacquered with rich chocolate.