If there’s one dessert that reminds Salon’s resident pastry chef Meghan McGarry of home, it’s crumb cake. “Crumb cake has a certain nostalgia to it, because there was always a crumb cake in my house ...

This New York coffee cake, with its large, delicious crumbs, is our idea of an anytime treat. New Yorkers like to think they invented the crumb cake, but it actually originated in Germany. Whatever ...

I’ve often felt like my recipes for this column were missing something. Not a technique or an ingredient, but a history, a connection to the past and to family. Most of my recipes are fairly “young,” ...

This is the first official installment of For Goodness Cake, a monthly cake column from pastry chef Joy Cho. Each month we’ll give you a recipe for cake that is not only relatively easy to make but ...

Recipes you want to make. Cooking advice that works. Restaurant recommendations you trust.

Most crumb cakes are more about the crumbs than the cake. But a truly great crumb cake — a tender, velvety bed with a blanket of shaggy nuggets on top — achieves harmony, each bite a balanced ...