You have a big choice each time you cook or bake: which fat will you use? So far, we’ve poured out all of the need-to-know info about various types of oils, dished up the difference between margarine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So you’ve got some extra time on your hands and what better way to spend it than by baking something delicious? As you flip ...

Q: I have been looking for a home-made cake recipe. My mom-in-law found one for me, but it contains shortening. I was wondering if there is a substitute for shortening, like margarine or apple sauce?

This cake is friendly to substitutes (see Substitutions, below). Bananas stand in for eggs, both binding the batter and giving it body — use bananas whose peels have gone mostly black for the best ...

Q: I would like to find a coconut cake that I had growing up in the ’60s. My mother bought it at Rich’s at Greenbriar Mall. It’s the best I’ve ever had. Is there a recipe? G. Chastain, Douglasville A: ...

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