As someone with a very active sweet tooth, I always need to end the day with dessert. Sometimes a simple scoop of ice cream will do, but occasionally I crave something a bit more homemade feeling.

I learned the secret to making the best, crunchiest fruit crumble more than two decades ago. And I subsequently ignored it. A pastry chef friend shared the technique. Instead of sprinkling the raw ...

Serves 4. Recipe is from “Artful Feast: An Elegant Lifestyle for Dining” by Dr. Nia K. Terezakis, who says, “I usually keep the crumble mixture rolled up wax paper and plastic in my freezer. It is ...

Fruit crisps and crumbles are some of the simplest dessert recipes you can make. In the heat of the summer, the last thing you want to do after a long day in the sun is spend too much time in the ...

There are recipes we think we know by heart, but only because we’ve always seen them in the same context. Crumble is “apple”, tarte Tatin is “apple”, cake is “for coffee or snack time”, crêpes are ...

Chocolate is my default dessert mode. I eat enough berries, peaches, apricots and plums out of hand in the summer that I never feel a great urgency to use them when I’m baking. But then something like ...

If summer fruit pie is the hare, then summer fruit crumble is the tortoise. Stay with me. Pie is the dessert that looks supremely impressive, the one that when you pull it out of the oven, people ...

2.Chop fruits up in medium to small slices, sit to the side in a bowl or flat tray. 3.Add ice to the bottom of the pitcher. Fill about half of the pitcher. 4.Squeeze each separate fruit over the ice ...

A couple weeks ago on a drive through Sebastopol on our way to Bodega Bay we passed the Luther Burbank farm. Known locally in his day as “the wizard” because of his experimental horticultural ...

I learned the secret to making the best, crunchiest fruit crumble over two decades ago. And I subsequently ignored it. A pastry chef friend shared the technique. Instead of sprinkling the raw crumbs ...