Their fame comes not from recipe books or cookery shows, but emails. Some time in the mid-2000s, viral recipes started popping up in inboxes and calling for people to ditch the long-winded baking slog ...

Have you ever had a day when nothing but a piece of cake would do? (My hand is raised high!) Maybe it was too late to swing by a bakery or you weren’t in the mood to tackle a baking project, but still ...