A few months ago, I bought a “Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book,” published in 1968, at a church yard sale. I didn’t need another Better Homes cookbook; I bought it because of the handwritten ...

With summer just around the corner, it can be hard to keep from daydreaming about your next vacation — at least that’s my current struggle, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. Each time I stare out my ...

“From the SCCC Kitchen” offers Daily Gazette readers tastes from Schenectady County Community College’s nationally accredited American Culinary Federation culinary arts program. Today, Technical ...

This delectable riff on classic hummingbird cake is finished off with a drizzle of delicious cream cheese glaze. "All the flavors of Hummingbird Cake —bananas, pineapple, coconut and pecans—are in ...

From towering confections layered with coconut filling and finished with billowy frosting to sheet cakes to feed a crowd, there is no bad form of coconut cake. Some coconut cakes are vanilla, and the ...

PERHAPS YOU just returned from a spring-break visit to the tropics; if you didn’t, you are even more sorely in need of this cake. Run through with caramelized pineapple, toasted coconut and a splash ...

Flipping through Pillsbury’s “Best of the Bake-Off Collection” (Wiley, $29.95), a re-release of the 1959 classic, I was struck by how many of the recipes from the first 10 years of the contest have ...

From a summery mango and coconut bake to upside-down caramel banana bread, these topsy-turvy bakes are fun to make and great to eat. There's a little bit of magic in a upside-down cake. When you put ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...