My mom remarried when I was in my 30s. Already on my path as a food professional, I decided to make her wedding cake. Or wedding cakes. I didn’t want to risk a tiered extravaganza caving in on itself ...

(Excerpted from "The Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook" 2nd edition by Elisa Spungen Bildner and Robert Bildner with chef Brian Alberg. Used with permission from Countryman Press.) This handsome carrot ...

I think I made the first version of this carrot cake back when I was pastry sous chef at Gilt, the now long-ago shuttered restaurant inside New York’s Palace Hotel. My pastry boss at the time, David ...

There’s just something special about a homemade carrot cake; especially this one. It’s moist, perfectly spiced, stacked high ...

Carrot cake, that 1970s favorite, had a newer audience at luxe restaurants like Manhattan's Le Bernardin in 2013, when pastry chef Jodi Elliot served the ultimate version. With only four ingredients — ...

This extra carrot-y, not-too-sweet carrot cake is loaded with carrots and toasted nuts and slathered with orange cream cheese frosting. (Rebecca Peloquin / For The Times) My mom remarried when I was ...

This carrot cake contains all the usual ingredients that make carrot cake distinct — carrots, cinnamon, walnuts — but with a bit (or more than a bit) more of everything! The cream cheese frosting is ...