Chef Dominique Ansel reveals his expert tips for spotting a lousy croissant behind a pastry case.

The debate is out.

Nicolas Guercio, the executive pastry chef at Hôtel Lutetia. Julie Limont Guercio, who at one point also wanted to be a motorcycle cop, took a circuitous route to find his dream job. Despite his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Westend61 / Getty Images You might think that professional pastry chefs bake everything from scratch — that they’ve come up with a ...

There’s a cliché in the restaurant industry that line cooks are afraid of pastry. They’ll complain it’s too precise, requires too much measurement. Add to that the fact that most culinary schools silo ...

Unless you’re a professional pastry chef, you probably make just a couple of pies a year — at most. As we head into peak pie-baking season, we talked to people who bake hundreds of pies each year, and ...

The Art of French Baking,” recently released by Phaidon and adapted from a pair of classic 1930s tomes by Ginette Mathiot, has more than 350 recipes.

Boxed cake mixes have come a long way. There are so many good boxed cake mix varieties on grocery shelves today for when you ...

We all have a nostalgic connection to the sweet treats we ate as children — especially pastry chefs. Many of them pull inspiration from the textures and flavors of their favorite store-bought cookies, ...

If you’ve noticed the increasingly sparse dessert menus around D.C. lately or been disappointed that the sweet offerings are often basic and blah (panna cotta and bread pudding, we’re looking at you), ...