Jack Rear is a senior lifestyle writer who joined the Telegraph in 2018. He reports on practically anything about modern life and believes in the fundamental importance of good news to our lives. He ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keriliwi via Unsplash When I learned that baking powder wasn’t invented until the late 1840s, I wondered how cakes ― which need ...

Unlike other sponge cakes, Genoise sponge doesn't have any raising agent and uses cooled melted butter in the making of the ...

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 ...

One of the requests from my culinary students this year was to make sponge cake. To be honest, it isn't my favourite cake to prepare, preferring rustic madeira-style cakes topped with seasonal fruit.

I'm as big a fan as anyone of heavy, butter-rich cakes – fat slices of madeira, Victoria sandwiches and doorstop wedges of fondant-covered birthday cake. I've even adopted "more butter is better" as a ...

During the infamous cake week, we watched the Great British Bake Off contestants tackle not just one genoise sponge but THREE during the technical challenge. A genoise sponge is the main star in the ...

The "perfect" genoise cake is ready in just over one hour with Paul Hollywood's straightforward recipe for a "light and airy" sponge. Genoise cake is a type of Italian sponge cake that is light, airy, ...