Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. Anyone who bakes cakes knows that parchment ...

If you want a level cake that doesn't stick to the pan, then you need to line the pan with parchment paper. This is collaborative content from Food & Wine's team of experts, including staff, recipe ...

I have seen recipes that call for buttering or greasing a cake pan, then placing parchment paper on top and then buttering the parchment. What is the point of buttering the bottom of the pan? For that ...

There are few kitchen tasks as deceptively tricky as lining a baking pan with parchment paper. Whether you typically try to cut it down to the perfect size, just smoosh it in, crumple it up, or create ...

We’ve got a new spin on a favorite dessert. Today’s banana upside-down coffee cake was inspired by the classic pineapple upside-down cake. Most of the nutritional enhancements we make to recipes ...