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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are lots of chocolate cake recipes in the world. But this one is funny: You don't use a mixing bowl. You don't need butter or eggs. You kind of play around with the ingredients. And when it ...