There are few types of food, let alone sweets, that everyone can agree on. But if I had to pick one with widespread, if not universal, appeal, it would be rustic, nostalgic and casual baked fruit ...

Those lifelike fruit desserts you’re seeing all over social media? We found them at a handful of bakeries in Los Angeles. Known as trompe-l’œil desserts, they are shaped and decorated to look like ...