The great British revival of Mr Kipling cakes

She paused in the aisle of a Sainsbury’s supermarket to put a familiar product in her trolley: a £3 packet of eight Angel ...
Los Angeles Times

Where to find the best dan tat, the anytime egg tarts

The non-Asian mother-in-law of a dear friend of mine once told me that “the Chinese don’t have desserts, not real ones.” The implication that I (a Chinese American) was other, different, and weird, ...
SF Weekly

The Great British Bake Off: Tarts and Pies

Finally, the quintessential British baking challenge for the contestants: pies and tarts. “Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie” doesn't mean that it was a poultry pie; it means that the the pie ...
Decider

What Is Quiche? The Breakfast Tart in ‘The Great British Baking Show’ “’80s Week”

Discover What’s Streaming On: The Great British Baking Show embraced all things retro on this week’s new episode, “’80s Week.” The tent was abuzz with jokes about Sting and E.T. and the bakers had to ...
Los Angeles Times

Emma Stone-worthy Portuguese egg tarts and more food in movies

The bliss of first bites, illicit cherries jubilee, Miyazaki’s gluttons ... and the crookie? Oh, what hath the Cronut wrought? I’m Laurie Ochoa, general manager of L.A. Times Food, with this week’s ...