Just like a painter coats a wall with white paint before layering another color on top, bakers reach for the extract. Just a few drops of bottled extract's strong, concentrated flavor can lay down ...

Pure, homemade extracts are easy to make and add better flavor to your cooking and baking. These simple instructions can be ...

From almond and soy to hemp, oat, pea and even potato, there are a seemingly endless array of plant-based milks out there—in fact, these days, the subcategory practically eclipses dairy milk options ...

There was a time not long ago that vanilla reigned over the land of aromas. It’s in cookies, cakes, and foaming body wash. It’s written into the tomes of copy on chocolate morsel packages across the ...

The most intriguing foods are the ones with flavors we can’t quite put our finger on, dishes with ingredients that dance on the tips of our tongues but remain a mystery. Until a few years ago, almond ...

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Traditional Pound Cake is made with equal parts butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. Anything else is just a variation!

Cookbook author and food creator Jake Cohen shared his festive recipe. Cookbook author and recipe developer Jake Cohen shared his gorgeous blue, glazed holiday cookies. Yield: About 2 dozen cookies ...

Nothing says Christmas quite like candy cane cookies. Kristen Johnson, a reader from Santa Monica, as well as a finalist one year in our L.A. Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off, submitted this recipe, ...

It’s somewhat common knowledge that I boost my baked goods with almond extract instead of, or in tandem with, vanilla. But now I’ve added a third extract to the extravaganza: cinnamon. Beyond being an ...