Christmas taste test: cakes, mince pies and panettone
Melissa Hemsley tastes traditional and modern takes on mince pies, fruit cakes and roulades
Taste test: the high street’s doughnuts, scones and muffins
Bake Off alumnus Liam Charles on honeycomb patterns in croissants (good) and luminous custard (bad)
Nadiya Hussain: ‘This is more than a job – it’s important to be out there’
The Bake Off winner turned national treasure tells Observer Food Monthly about combining family life, anxiety and the pressures of being a role model
Cooking for one in the age of Trump
The kitchen in my flat in New York was squalid. And so was the daily news of Trump. But I have learned to adapt to both
OFM Awards 2018: Best Instagram Feed – Soulful Baker
Julie Jones documents kitchen life with her mum, who has dementia, and the healing she finds in baking cakes
Cakes, tarts and scones: Easter baking recipes
Claire Ptak’s seasonal favourites from marshmallows to Nigerian dough balls
Covert cooking: how to bake a pie in prison
When May Eaton was a writer in residence at a men’s jail, she found the inmates’ real creativity lay in the cakes and curries they made in their cells
From foraging to clean eating: how our passion for food has grown
For Observer Food Monthly’s 200th issue, Rachel Cooke examines the food trends that have come and gone over the last 17 years, the ways we ate and shopped – and what lies ahead
OFM Awards 2017: Best Producer – Bisous Bisous
For perfect macarons and more, forget posh Parisian patisseries – head to Bisous Bisous in Didsbury, the OFM judges’ Best Producer
OFM Awards 2017: Best Readers’ Recipe – Maryam Shams’ bakhlava traybake
The OFM judges tasted our readers’ entries and rated this twist on a Middle Eastern recipe the winner
How baking helped save my life
The science and magic of baking led Elisabeth Mahoney away from grief and into a new life and successful business
Taste test: Easter chocolate and cakes
On the hunt for the best eggs and hot cross buns with Lorraine Pascale
Why the macaron is a pastel menace
The macaroon of my childhood has been supplanted by its mimsy French cousin. How did it get so popular? After all, it’s little more than a table decoration
Five Christmas bakes from the inventor of the Cronut
Dominique Ansel, named the world’s top patissier, shares his yuletide recipes for snowflake beignets, chocolate tres leches cake and champagne morning rolls
Nadiya Hussain: ‘I have a senseless love affair with cheese’
The Bake Off winner recalls childhood curries and explains why she didn’t get into baking until she was a teenager