Jose Garces says that while the dough for the empanadas must rest properly and be rolled out thin to be workable, once you get it down this is an easy dough to handle. When forming the empanadas, make...

By ALISON LADMAN

For The Associated Press

You may not be able to jet Mom off to a tropical island to show your love, but you can at least give her a tropical treat.

The flavors...

By the Associated Press

The first thing I ever picked out to bake with my mother was a lemon blueberry Bundt cake. I’d seen an ad for the cake — complete with lemon-yellow icing — and thought...

Start to finish: 45 minutes 
Makes 24 cookies 
1 cup granulated sugar 
Zest of 1 lemon 
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature 
1/4 teaspoon salt 

By the Associated Press

Like the traditional French tarte tatin, this spring pastry has caramelized fruit cooked on the stove. It then is topped with a pastry, baked and flipped out of the pan.

The...

By the Associated Press
My favorite childhood photograph is of my mother, my sister and me on Easter morning. We are dressed alike in matching spring coats, hats and gloves, holding our Easter...