Maida Heatter carried brownies with her wherever she went. They were always wrapped, for hygienic purposes, and also so her purse wouldn’t be filled with crumbs. She would distribute them to people ...

Maida Heatter, who was known throughout the food world as the "Queen of Cake," passed away this week at the age of 102. A prolific writer and self-taught chef, Heatter spent the majority of her life ...

We lost a giant when cookbook author Maida Heatter died this month at the age of 102. Despite never having enjoyed the universal influence that can come from a television show, Heatter still managed ...

When Maida Heatter (May-da HEAT-ter) died this past June, the world lost a self-taught baker and cookbook author whose commitment to precision baking was well-known throughout the cookbook industry, ...

There’s cause for celebration for fans of Maida Heatter, or chocolate, or both: the back-in-print and updated “Maida Heatter’s Book of Great Chocolate Desserts” (Andrews McMeel, $24.95). Some 200 ...

This triple-layer chocolate torte, the newspaper’s most requested dessert in 1972, was just one of the recipes developed by the legendary author, who died on Thursday at 102. By Margaux Laskey Maida ...

I PROMISED MY younger kids we could bake together, handed each one a reliable cookbook and figured I’d break the tie vote. Unexpectedly, the 9-year-old on the couch browsing Kristen Miglore’s ...

Ironically, as it would turn out, my first impression of Maida Heatter was that she was meek. At the behest of cooking school owner Peter Kump, I phoned to invite her to come to New York and teach ...

Maida Heatter, known for most of her life as “the Queen of Cake,” was first put in the national spotlight in 1968 not solely for her confections but also for her wry sense of humor: She had her ...

It’s been nearly 40 years since a famed brownie named after Palm Beach starred at a 1988 all-American feast prepared by notable chefs in the nation’s capital, but in the age-old luscious-brownie ...