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 ...

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, ...

1. Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt and keep at hand. 2. Working in a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment or in a bowl with a hand mixer, beat the butter and both sugars together ...

Usually filled with black cherry jam or pastry cream, Koa Duncan, pastry chef at Water Grill, fills her Gateau Basque (cake of the house — in the Basque region of Spain) with caramelized Granny Smith ...

Chefs Juan Mari Arzak and Elena Arzak reimagine the traditional Basque dish merluza en salsa verde by poaching cod in clam broth rather than pan-cooking it, then adorning the fish with a modern, ...

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.

1 egg mixed with 1 tablespoon of milk, for brushing MAKE THE DOUGH: In a medium bowl, whisk the flour with the baking powder and salt. In a standing mixer fitted with a paddle, beat the butter with ...

Dubbed the Basque Cake Festival, the town hosts cake-making workshops and a competition for the best Basque cake over the course of a weekend fit for gourmands from every corner of the globe. While ...

Dessert: Considered one of the best cheesecakes in the world by the New York Times, let's discover the Basque Cheesecake ...

The burnt Basque cheesecake has become ubiquitous in Australia, but another cake from the region has a much longer history, and is just as good. — From Normandy to the Spanish border, follow Guillaume ...