An easy summer bake

These recipes from our Lifestyle Director Eleanor Steafel's new cookbook, But First, Dinner: Food for our Real Lives, make the ideal menu for warm evenings

When your birthday rolls around, what's your ideal celebratory cake? Maybe you're craving a decadent bite of red velvet, or wanting to get in on some German chocolate action. No matter your preference, we can all agree that cake is a supreme dessert. Flavor-wise, funfetti flavors really __take the cake for us – pun fully intended. It's a basic fact of life that scattering rainbow…