Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. Since I didn’t grow up with babka, I didn’t really know what I was missing. By the time I got acquainted with the ...

My favorite kind of dessert is anything that goes well with coffee; luckily, that category includes most desserts but is specifically an excellent fit for coffee cake. Coffee cake may not contain any ...

Read between the lines of an old family recipe and you’re liable to read the story of the family itself. The scrawled marginalia and cooking stains, the collective memory of shared feasts — they might ...

It began as an experimental baking project when I was a busy young mother with three young children and adorable little nieces and nephews. As pre-schoolers, every Friday my boys brought home ...