I lived with my grandparents for a year after high school and I loved walking in the door and seeing a cake pan cooling on the counter. I would cut myself a square and relish the simple dessert. It ...

Their fame comes not from recipe books or cookery shows, but emails. Some time in the mid-2000s, viral recipes started popping up in inboxes and calling for people to ditch the long-winded baking slog ...