It was my grandmother’s buckwheat cakes served alongside a platter of Wetzelberger Brothers sausage, scrapple and a brand of syrup called Golden Crown. Not everyone liked grandmother Lily Rose ...

Buckwheat flour is the baker’s secret to more depth in your cookies, cakes, and more. Here’s how to use it. 2021 F&W Best New Chef Paola Velez uses a combination of all-purpose and buckwheat ...

Look for light (not dark) buckwheat flour made from hulled seeds. Our favorite is Arrowhead Mills. If you’re feeling formal, serve the cakes one to a plate at the end of a dinner party.

No true New-Yorker is without an affection, deep as his ancestral pride, for the cake of his childhood, morning pabulum, the breakfast delicacy, the tender offspring of the purple buckwheat.

This gluten-free loaf was inspired by German cake recipes from a 13th-century cookbook. With its malty, molasses notes, buckwheat honey gives the cake its signature flavor. Serve it with a smear ...

This is how I came to cooking with buckwheat—as a transliteration of the wheat flour I’m used to. Cakes that usually come at you two-fisted—pure butter and sugar—begin to relax when you ...

"More Than Cake: 100 Baking Recipes Built for Pleasure and Community." She shows us how to make chocolaty buckwheat and brown butter cookies and shortbread bars filled with crunchy granola.

Make Claire Saffitz's recipes for cherry and brown butter buckwheat crisp, flourless chocolate meringue cake and no-bake grapefruit bars You can save this article by registering for free here.