For those of you who wish summertime at KCRW meant Cake-A-Day, here’s a compromise: a dessert made up of cake batter baked in a pie shell. It’s called Funny Cake, and it’s a traditional Pennsylvania ...

This beloved Pennsylvania Dutch dessert comes straight out of my 1958 edition of The New Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book by Ruth Hutchison — one of my favorite vintage finds. The original recipe calls ...

Some of my favorite foods to write about and enjoy eating are those that defy definition. A good example: Funny cake, a Pennsylvania Dutch classic that isn’t a cake. Take a pie crust, fill it with a ...

When Mary Grube moved to Bethlehem Township from Arizona six years ago, she decided to immerse herself in Pennsylvania culture. Grube, a private chef and culinary instructor, began researching ...

If you have watched the Netflix show Is It Cake?, then you know that the art of baking has reached such a superior level that you can simply name an object and it can be a cake design. From a toilet ...

What could you post for National Cake Day? Well, for starters, obviously a picture of an aesthetically pleasing cake is a great idea - and don't worry, you can totally snap a photo of a cake you saw ...