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Alton Brown's Baking Tips Holidays bring feasting -- and with that comes baking. Culinary wizard and the Food Network's Good Eats host Alton Brown offers advice for flaky pie crusts, cakes that don't fall and desserts to make on a short notice.
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Alton Brown's Baking Tips

Expert Advice for Last-Minute Baking

With guidance from his mother and grandmother, chef Alton Brown developed an flair in the kitchen early. In the final installment of our holiday baking series, he offers some last-minute tips. And NPR's Jennifer Ludden gets some kitchen wisdom from her own grandmother, Marion Otte.

Expert Advice for Last-Minute Baking

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Cake-Baking Secrets from Alton Brown

Why do some cakes seem to go so well on the way into the oven, but come out as disastrous sinkholes? The Food Network's Alton Brown solves the mysteries of cake-baking in the second of our series of holiday baking tips. He talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

Cake-Baking Secrets from Alton Brown

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Alton Brown: Easy as Pie

In the first of a series to help with the mad dash of holiday cooking, Alton Brown, host of The Food Network show '"Good Eats" and author of "I'm Just Here for More Food," offers some baking tips. He explains the secrets and science behind a perfect pie crust.

Alton Brown: Easy as Pie

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