There’s something truly magical about an Old-Fashioned Butter Cake. It evokes memories of grandma’s kitchen, Sunday dinners, ...

I’m extremely, unapologetically fussy about baking recipes. After all, they take far more time and often even more money than their store-bought counterparts. Still, Nigella Lawson’s advice has ...

Often confused with German Chocolate Cake, Black Forest Cake is actually from Germany. And this cake is really old-fashioned, like late 16th-century old-fashioned.

Lauren Bair Sun, June 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM UTC 3 min read A slice of chocolate layer cake with a fork and chocolate sauce - Tinafields/Getty Images ...

Her recipe for an “old-fashioned chocolate cake” is, she writes, the “quintessential” one, supposedly “luscious and mood-enhancingly good”. Great, I thought.