In the electric mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the cream cheese, butter, flour, powdered sugar, baking powder and salt, and mix at low speed until a shaggy and sticky dough forms.

1 teaspoon orange flower water (available in Middle Eastern markets) Put sugar in a medium-sized, heavy-bottomed pot. Add ½ a cup of water to moisten the sugar. Split the vanilla bean lengthwise with ...

Can we ever get enough pies? Don't answer that. (One might ask the same thing about cupcakes, and there is no good answer to that question either.) Anyway, with spring coming to Southern California, ...