You can bake delicious cakes and cookies without having to use refined sugar. Most alternatives are perfectly sweet, from fruit to rice syrup - and they are better for your body, too.

Whether baking or cooking, date paste is an incredibly versatile ingredient to keep stocked in your panty. Here's how to find it, and the best way to use it.

As Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Fitr this weekend, Brenda Abdelall will make one of her Egyptian family’s oldest dessert recipes: kahk. This Middle Eastern pastry is a crumbly shortbread ...

This year, like many other Jews, I’m planning a Rosh Hashanah spread that will feature fish — a symbol of fertility, and a talisman against the evil eye. The only difference: Mine will be sweet and ...

Dates, soaked in hot water and whizzed in the food processor, substitute for sugar in these cookies that are great with morning coffee or afternoon tea. The recipe makes a little more date paste than ...