At Christmas, Elizabeth Katz of B.R. Guest Restaurants likes to create a tower of fluffy, chocolate-covered cream puffs. The dessert harkens back to her time as a pastry chef in the French kitchen at ...

1 cup chopped nuts or dried fruit, miniature marshmallows or chocolate chips (optional) Line an 8-inch-square pan with aluminum foil and grease the foil with 1 tablespoon of the butter. In a heavy, ...

It may not have occurred to the powers that be that February, the month when Valentine’s Day takes place, is a terrible time for strawberries. And yet they’re everywhere around the holiday, presumably ...