Editor’s note: High altitude makes cookies spread in the pan, cakes fall and few baked goods turn out as they do at sea level. This twice-monthly column presents ...

1 teaspoon pastis, such as Ricard or Pernod, or an anise-flavored liqueur Pinch of kosher salt To make the dough, in the work bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the ...

Gateau Basque is kind of like a tart, or a pie, or a cookie -- and the filled cake is one of the more unusual desserts in cookbook author Dorie Greenspan's repertoire. "It's a dry cake, but delicious, ...

Australian Gourmet Traveller Spanish cake recipe for gâteau Basque (Pastel Vasco). In the Basque country, this cake can be found with either cherries (or cherry jam) or pastry cream, but rarely both.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This relatively simple custard filled cake has a dedicated following within Basque communities. There is a Gâteau Basque Museum committed to ...

In Cara Black's soon to be released Paris-based noir mystery novel, Murder in Passy, (Soho Press), a computer-savvy French-American private investigator named Aimee Leduc gets an ill-tempered elderly ...