1. Make the bottom layer. Preheat your oven to 350 F. Prepare a 9- by 13-inch baking pan with the nonstick method of your choice (I recommend the parchment paper method).

Meet the French Butter Cake, or as it’s known in its native Brittany, the Gâteau Breton. This is not your typical light and airy cake. It is something far more interesting: a dense, incredibly rich, ...

Gooey butter cake is a sweet exploration of textures. While you can certainly make it from scratch with a yeast-raised crust layer, you can also skip the waiting and used boxed yellow cake instead.

Plain old butter mochi is great, but the kind we do at Tin Roof — developed after many hours of “research” — is on another level. Stoner food to the max.

If your cake recipe uses oil, great, dump it in, but butter should get a zap in the microwave first with a few minutes of cooling time to bring down the temp a smidge. Then add it to the blender.