Maybe because she’s too busy partying in her Manolo Blahnik shoes, punk princess Marie Antoinette, as conceived by filmmaker Sofia Coppola, never offers cake to the angry rabble. But she does put away ...

Layer cakes: In the Oct. 18 Food section, an article on layer cakes included a recipe for basic genoise that called for 4 ounces (half a stick) unsalted butter. Four ounces of butter is one stick. In ...

B irthday parties, Easter soirees, coronations: They’re all perfect occasions for a good layer cake. Rising tiers of delicate genoise, or sponge cake, layered with ethereal French butter cream make ...

Birthday parties, holiday soirees, coronations: They’re all perfect occasions for a good layer cake. Rising tiers of delicate genoise layered with ethereal French butter cream — imagine cirrus clouds ...

For the recipe here, the Los Angeles Times Test Kitchen spent two days making cakes, testing recipe after recipe from classic and current cookbooks until we settled on this variant of a recipe I used ...

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