Cinnamon

  Total time: About 1 1/2 hours, plus rising times Servings: 24 (makes 4 individual kringle, with 6 servings each) Note: Adapted from Henrik Gram of Hygge Bakery in L.A. This is a typical Danish pastry found in most bakeries in Denmark. There are...

  Carrot cake ice cream Total time: 1 hour, plus chilling and freezing time -------------------- Our recipes, your kitchen: If you try this or any other recipe from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen, please share it with us: Click here to upload pictures of...

CHICAGO (AP) - The latest food fad known as the cinnamon challenge involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. The `prize' could end up being a hospital stay.   Doctors warn in a new report that the...

The cough-inducing effects of taking the "cinnamon challenge," in which thrill-seekers try to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon without water in less than a minute, can be seen all over the Internet. Some health experts have voiced concerns over the dare...

I have an aunt who is famous in the family for her carrot cake. This is partly due to the fact that she doesn't make it for just any old dinner or family gathering. It just magically shows up exactly when you need it. And with its tender cinnamon-...

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Former Le Cirque and Citrus chef Rémi Lauvand has landed in downtown L.A. at a sleek new restaurant called Le Ka. For his head mixologist, the acclaimed French chef (who is cooking food from all over the world at Le Ka) has chosen South Carolina native...

Jeffrey Clayton from Baltimore was hoping someone would have the recipe for the sticky buns that were served in the cafeterias at Garrison Junior High and Forest Park High school back in the 1950s when he and his wife were students there. Unfortunately,...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. -- The model trains in Joe Stephens' layouts don't run along molded plaster hills. They chug over bridges made of willow branches, past flowing waterfalls and emerge from hollow log tunnels to run past cedar bark hillsides. Stephens...

A freshly baked tray of cinnamon rolls, redolent of spice and sugar and yeast, turned gold by the heat that still warms the kitchen. Can't you just smell 'em? Bet you can't wait to taste them, either. We combed through the Los Angeles Times Test...

At 14 years of age, Tamara Hester's mother enrolled her in a Wilton cooking class at JC Penny's Department store. "We would start our cake in class and take it home to finish it," Tamara said. "One day my dad's business partner was watching me...

Save the planet! And the rainforests and the ice caps and the whales and polar bears, too. Come April 22, make a celebratory toast on Earth Day that will last all year by transforming your home bar to green. No, not absinthe-green, creme de menthe green,...