Not that you ever need an excuse to bake, but the new later, lovelier sunset hour is a good reason to try Amanda Rettke’s Sunset Cake, from her new book Surprise ... party or a balloon for ...

My wife threw a surprise 40th Birthday party for me, a month early. Cake and balloons were all over the place so I was having fun. As the Geeky dads stood around, we looked at the helium tank and ...

which was decked out with hundreds of silver-mirrored balloons and several signs shaped like scrolls that read, “Mason’s Bar Mitzvah.” Mason was presented with a giant black cake decorated ...