What is a Watergate Cake? It’s the popular dessert made with a recipe that was passed around a lot in the mid-1970s. In the name of historical research, we decided to give this vintage cake recipe try! Here’s how it turned out.
Chocolate mint sundae cake “Yes! It’s easy to get better cakes — use Spry with Cake-Improver!” says Aunt Jenny. “It is proof you’re wanting, ladies?
Here, see a collection of antique & vintage St Patrick’s Day postcards — sweet little hello notes people sent to each other a century ago!
No luck needed to bake this deliciously vintage Lucky Clover Cake for St Patrick’s Day! This recipe from 1950 promised to be tall, dark and luscious.
Once you make this Shamrock silk pie — made with chocolate chips, cream cheese and Irish Mist liqueur — you’ll know why Irish eyes are smiling.
Making a new dessert that your family will love isn’t a tough nut to crack when you have this Pistachio Inside-Outside cake recipe, made with pistachio flavor instant pudding and cake mix!
This Green Angel Lime Cake recipe is based on angel food cake, but gets a little extra zip from the addition of green lime flavor Jello – then the whole thing is slathered in a light fluffy fruit-flavored frosting.
Shamrock Shakes (1979) “’tis the first green of spring – MINT flavor” McDonald’s Shamrock Shake TV ad (1983) McDonald’s Shamrock shake & sundaes
Observance of St Patrick’s Day in early times in Southern states The day was appropriately observed in Baltimore in 1795 Irishmen are taking much interest in the
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