Coffee cake so good you'll want it on your death bed

Culinary SOS is one of our most popular features -- you ask for a restaurant recipe, and the L.A. Times Test Kitchen does everything within the letter of the law to get it. Well, over years, one of the most...

Best Bets: Sock It To Me Cake

The Sock It To Me Cake at Neely’s Bar-B-Que Restaurant ranks close to the late Mrs. Pandolfi’s pound cake. I use her cake as the standard to measure other cakes by. She ran the cafeteria when I was in grade school at Blessed Sacrament back in the 1950s and ’60s. One time I tasted her buttery-rich pound cake, which obviously was made from scratch. I’ve never forgotten it.

Deconstructing Honey Cake

‘Honey cake is not so much loved as revered,” Arthur Schwartz writes in “Arthur Schwartz’s Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited” (Ten Speed Press, 2008). Truer culinary words have never been written. Honey cake is a symbolic super food and an undisputed fixture on many Rosh Hashanah tables. But just as with fruitcake, which routinely is served and goes uneaten on Christmas, honey cake ...

Four Barrel Throws a Party With Coffee, Cake, and Pony Rides

Four Barrel Coffee (375 Valencia, at 14th St.) is throwing itself a party for its two-year anniversary. A big one. There are balloons and cake, a photo booth and music, free coffee for ev...

Oxford coffee drinkers wanted for Macmillan

A CANCER charity is busy brewing support in Oxfordshire for a fundraising coffee morning.