1. Sift the flour, sugar and salt into a mixing bowl. Cut the chilled butter into pieces into the bowl. Using your fingertips, rapidly rub the butter and dry ingredients together until the mixture ...

Toss together the flour, salt and sugar in large bowl. Using a pastry blender, a fork or your hands, cut the fat (butter, shortening or lard) into the flour mix until you see pea-sized chunks of fat ...

SEATTLE - The holidays season is officially upon us and with it comes wintry weather, Seahawks football, and of course, comfort food. One familiar item that graces holiday tables across the country is ...

Place flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, and salt into the bowl of a food processor and pulse several times to mix. Add the butter and pulse until it is pea-size. Add almond extract and 4 tablespoons ice ...

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” I repeated the reassuring mantra past weekend as I mixed together butter, margarine and sour cream for my apple strudel. It wasn’t just any apple strudel. After ...

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour two 9-by-5-inch loaf pans. For cream cheese mixture, beat together cream cheese, sugar, egg, flour, sour cream and vanilla extract until well blended. Place ...

Julie Jones makes pastries and cakes and tarts so beautiful, it’s easy to get lost scrolling through her Instagram posts of them. She’s a UK-based baker (@julie_jonesuk if you want to follow her on ...

Q: Oh, how I miss Chicago and its bakeries and so much more. My German and Polish friends used to make a large sheet pan of apple slices, somewhat like a pie, had a glaze on top and was cut in squares ...

My parents almost always have a pie in the cupboard: apple in the fall, pumpkin in the winter, rhubarb in the spring and blackberry in the summer. My mom makes the crust. My dad makes the filling.

All pastry bags are not created equal. Years ago, almost all piping was done with canvas pastry bags, which worked fine and still are preferred by some Old World pastry chefs. But they leak, are hard ...

Julie Jones makes pastries and cakes and tarts so beautiful, it's easy to get lost scrolling through her Instagram posts of them. She's a UK-based baker (@julie_jonesuk if you want to follow her on ...