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All’s quiet in Ava, Missouri. The Ozark Mountain town has a population of just under 3,000, and searching for it on…

We did some over-the-top things at the end of aughts—practicing duck faces, seeking the perfect cranium-topping…

We put a lot of ourselves into our cakes. Cakes just feel like more of an occasion unto themselves than cookies or…

In honor of Canadian Thanksgiving, The Takeout is celebrating the nation’s culinary contributions all week long. We…

Does this election season fill you with rage? Does it make you want to eat lots and lots of carbs and sugar just to…

While the past few months have been pretty much a nonstop carnival of tension and unpleasant surprises, perhaps the…

There is one advantage cake always has over pie, and that is frosting and all the decorating opportunities it…

It should come as no surprise that, in a culture increasingly defined by a rush toward immediacy, a dessert that…

What is it about a cake wreck that’s so funny, every single time? Maybe it’s that, in the era of programming like Cak…

A few loyal Takeout readers have been begging for a Baltimore peach cake recipe since last winter, and while I’m…

Update, July 13, 2020: Never give Twitter an entire weekend to focus on a meaningless news story (or “news” “story”).…

In culinary lore, bee sting cake (known as bienenstich in its native German) was created by a group of bakers in the…

Even in the darkest timeline, there will always be reasons to celebrate. Babies are born. Birthdays roll…

If social media is to be believed (and why wouldn’t it be?), it appears that everyone is already over trying their…

Jacinda Ardern is so many things: the prime minister of New Zealand. The world’s youngest head of government (she…

It’s been said that great ideas seem to hit multiple people simultaneously, like the way Newton and Leibniz both…

Stuck inside and hankering for a slice of moist, luscious chocolate cake, like, right now?

Small businesses like bakeries, as we all probably know by now, operate on very thin profit margins and will suffer…

I remember the year I ate half of the entire black cake by myself. It had been an annual tradition for my mother’s…