Martha Stewart's Cake Perfection: Six Inspired Recipes from Our Founder's Latest Book (2024)

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Does Martha Stewart really know how do you cook? ›

She really does know how to cook

Martha Stewart's cooking tips for home chefs have been recommended for decades, and she even has a show on PBS, "Martha Stewart's Cooking School," that provides audiences with 30-minute deep dives on the basics of cooking and meal prep.

From pound cake and angel food (with many variations) to genoise and streusel-topped, from comfort classics like red velvet, six-layer coconut, rich chocolate, lemon meringue, and cheesecake to sophisticated grown-up fare including chiffon cakes and tortes with luscious fruits, these 150 recipes and color photographs ...

In what should be a shock to no one, our Community's most beloved Martha Stewart recipe is her One-Pan Pasta. Part of our Genius recipe series, this pasta is convenient, consistent, and absolutely delicious. The recipe begins by combining spaghetti, basil, cherry tomatoes, onion, and garlic in a sauté pan.

A few years later, however, Stewart found herself wrapped up in an insider trading scandal that would eventually send her to prison. Stewart landed in hot water after selling her stake in ImClone Systems, a biopharmaceutical company, in December 2001.

Don't get caught in the trap of thinking that you must bake from scratch if you sell cakes. Most bakeries do NOT bake from scratch. In fact, I once worked at a bakery that actually claimed to be a “scratch bakery”, but all their cakes started with a Duncan Hines cake mix, the same kind you buy in the grocery store.

Dolly Parton Baking Collection – Duncan Hines.

Mirken was impressed by Stewart's talent as a chef and hostess and later contacted her to develop a cookbook, featuring recipes and photos from the parties that Stewart hosted. The result was her first book, Entertaining (December 13, 1982), ghostwritten by Elizabeth Hawes.

Raised in Nutley, New Jersey, in a family with six children, Martha developed her passion for cooking, gardening and homekeeping at an early age. Her mother taught her the basics of cooking, baking, canning, and sewing; her father introduced her to gardening at the age of three.

Martha Stewart

And not only has this lifestyle dynamo always made it seem effortless, she's also done it all without a culinary degree. As a teen in New Jersey, Stewart worked as a fashion model, later attending Barnard College where she earned her degree in European and architectural history.

Stewart's mother taught her how to cook and sew.

Has Martha Stewart ever worked in a restaurant? ›

The original food and lifestyle influencer has never been involved in a restaurant — until now. Martha Stewart, left, at her home in Westchester County, N.Y., provided input and inspiration for the Bedford by Martha Stewart, a new restaurant in Las Vegas. Credit... Left: Celeste Sloman for The New York Times.