Apple butter is essentially caramelized apple sauce — a fruit purée that slow-cooks with water or cider until the apple’s natural sugars turn a dark, toasty brown. The mixture is augmented with baking ...

This braided bread, lovely to look at and heaven to taste, is well worth baking any day of the year. It is also a Christmas specialty. Lillian V. H. Elsezy of Baltimore says she wants to make Houska ...

Upside-down desserts are culinary genius. When fruit cooks on the bottom of the pan instead of on the top, it steams and often caramelizes, giving it a deep, concentrated sweetness and melding its ...

Challah, that braided Jewish bread that’s eaten during Shabbat and holidays. Its popularity has grown so much that it’s offered in bakeries around the world. Challah is a rich dough and a gorgeous one ...