Amidst much talk this week of princesses, we have be focused on our chatting with our Queen. Maida Heatter, of course. Choosing what recipe to run has been the trickiest part. Should we run a brownie ...
This triple-layer chocolate torte, the newspaper’s most requested dessert in 1972, was just one of the recipes developed by the legendary author, who died on Thursday at 102. By Margaux Laskey Maida ...
May finds Charleston bursting with celebrations: graduations, bridal showers, and the glorious first week of the Spoleto Festival. Where celebratory food is called for, there will be desserts. You can ...
I PROMISED MY younger kids we could bake together, handed each one a reliable cookbook and figured I’d break the tie vote. Unexpectedly, the 9-year-old on the couch browsing Kristen Miglore’s ...
A good tea cake can make any day better. However, most cake recipes use maida (refined flour) or processed white sugar, which a lot of people want to avoid. But you don’t have to worry any longer ...
What's inside a cookbook counts, but we still judge a book by its cover. Which is why even those books that should be on everyone's shelves, like Maida Heatter's 1997 classic Cakes (itself a ...
My own encounter with famed baking book writer Maida Heatter was at the swanky James Beard Foundation Awards in Manhattan in the late 1990s. OK, encounter is a bit of a stretch, as some 1,000 ...
Maida Heatter, known for most of her life as “the Queen of Cake,” was first put in the national spotlight in 1968 not solely for her confections but also for her wry sense of humor: She had her ...
Monica Burton is the former deputy editor of Eater.com where she covered restaurants and food culture from 2017 to 2025. Cookbook author and “Queen of Cake” Maida Heatter died yesterday at her home in ...