Baker’s Chocolate Wellesley fudge cake recipe (1941)
The double chocolate richness of Wellesley fudge cake is a favorite from way back — practically irresistible when you make it, as your grandmother doubtless did, with Baker’s Chocolate.
The double chocolate richness of Wellesley fudge cake is a favorite from way back — practically irresistible when you make it, as your grandmother doubtless did, with Baker’s Chocolate.
This rich and chocolaty classic Texas sheet cake is a chocolate lover’s dream cake — and it takes only 15 minutes to bake!
Indulgent much? This retro recipe for a Milky Wonder Cake makes one of the sweetest desserts ever. With the frosting, you’re looking at nine candy bars and four cups of sugar in one cake.
Here’s an old-fashioned favorite perfect for a child’s birthday party: ice cream cone cupcakes! We have the vintage recipe right here.
You make these exciting walnut brownie desserts with boxed brownie mix. They’re quick! They’re easy! And you’ll love the homemade flavor of chocolately-good brownies.
Get classic holiday recipes from the sixties: Caramel crunch popcorn, Lemon European cake, and a festive Gumdrop nut wreath.
See some fun-to-eat centerpiece retro decorated Christmas cakes that the kids can help you bake! There’s a wreath, snowman, stocking, tree & Santa Claus.
Here’s a recipe for a surprise holiday cake! It’s a tomato soup fruitcake that you make it with Campbell’s tomato soup. Get the retro recipe right here.
People of all ages will love these cute vintage Christmas cookie houses, which can be made easily and inexpensively. See examples and get directions here!
Christmas toy cookies for kids of all ages 44 fabulous designs, from drums to choo-choo trains… fun to bake, even more fun to eat! Christmas
Need some cute cupcakes that are easy to decorate and won’t take too much time (or money)? Get some great cupcake decorating ideas here from 1995!
Looking for some deliciously sweet fall snacks? Try these two classic recipes: some amazing pumpkin spice cookies with lemon icing, and the traditional seasonal favorite, Libby’s pumpkin nut bread!
Get the recipes for two classic desserts: a buttermilk spice cake with penuche icing, and a delicious burnt sugar cake.
For Halloween party fun, make a Hallo Witch Halloween cake! You don’t need any special pans — just cut a square cake as shown, then frost.
Even in the seventies, making groovy cakes wasn’t something just for professionals. see some of what the Wilton cake decorating yearbooks offered!
No matter how good your family brownie recipe is, it will taste even better with a little of this frosting on top to make them rocky road bar brownies.
Try this whipped ice-box icing to make a delicious frosted strawberry pink party cake, or use it to dress up any flat white cake!
Are there any chocolate lovers in your house? Surprise them with this chocolate rhapsody cake. Such rich, chocolaty flavor. So lovely and tender.
One of Southern Living magazines’ most popular recipes, the Hummingbird cake is a classic Southern dessert sweet you won’t want to miss!
Cakes look custom-made when they’re frosted Frosting on the cake has come to mean an extra frippery or frivolity — something not necessary, but certainly
Orange-filled party cake recipe Yellow cake 2 cups sugar 3 eggs 1/2 teaspoon salt 1-1/2 cups milk 2/3 cup margarine or butter-flavor Crisco shortening 1-1/2
This circus train makes a perfect birthday cake for a child! After you bake and frost this fun cake, let the kids decorate their own ‘cars.’
Here’s a special centennial cake… with a special frosting… Make them both with Borden’s cream.
A cake, more than any other creation of the culinary art, truly expresses the spirit of festivity. And the magic of a cake extends beyond the festive occasion, into the cozy family world of everyday.
A woman never gets too old, or too experienced, to be thrilled when she sees her own handiwork emerge as a breathtakingly beautiful cake. But delicious cakes don’t “just happen.”
This Toll House cake is really a different and glamorous cake, with all the lightness and delicacy you always look for – plus whole Morsels of Nestle’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate scattered through and through it.
A birthday cake is a personal gift by Elizabeth Sparks Happy Birthday! Nothing says “Happy birthday” like a birthday cake. A birthday cake is a
Make this pink heart-shaped cake for Valentine’s Day – or a bridal party or for a birthday, for a wedding anniversary, or just to please someone you love.
Like ice cream and cake at your house? Here’s a delightful new way to serve it!
A New Year wish you can make come true! To bake the most luscious New Year’s cakes you ever tasted, follow these four easy recipes from the ’50s.
Paula gives mother-in-law her comeuppance! “That little flibbertigibbet!” I thought the minute I clapped eyes on my son’s bride coming down the Pullman steps. “can’t
Lollipop cookie recipe Ingredients 1 cup (2 sticks) Challenge Butter, softened 1-1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar 2 eggs 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2
Goody for you! Who can resist Chocolate Refreshers brownies, made with nuts and dates and semi-sweet morsels?
Here are the top 3 prizewinning recipes from the All-Florida Orange Dessert Contest in 1964: Orange sunburst cheesecake, Orange loaf cake & Orange party cake.
Use Best Foods for moister, richer spice cakes… the best you’ve ever tasted. Amazin’ Raisin Cake Recipe
You’ll be the star of the party when you serve this Choc-O-Lantern Halloween cake. Bewitching and so delicious!
CBK Halloween cookies recipe During the festive trick-or-treat season, Cynthia Bruce Kramer watches her sweet and spooky Halloween cookies fly off the shelves. Now you
Just try this moist-keeping Peanut Cream Cake, rich with Baker’s Chocolate Was it you we heard wishing for a summer cake recipe? We know you’ll
Bring spring to your table with this lovely, luscious daffodil pecan cake, based on an old-fashioned recipe that you’ll love.
Heard the rumor Betty Crocker frosting mix makes great candy? There’s nothing to it. Introducing nothing-to-it homemade candy from Betty Crocker. You start with Betty
Devils’s food whirligig cake Follow directions carefully, be sure to use Crisco, and we promise you a lighter, richer, moister, more tender cake. Devils’s food
Checkerboard Cake You can use Swift’ning with perfect confidence in any type of cake. This delicate, snowy-white shortening contains a special quick-mix ingredients, gives you
A fall eating winner — Cinnamon apple cream cake Now cake-baking has no terrors for the youngest bride with no cooking experience. Good cakes keep good husbands,
Double-peppermint cake recipe Looks like a birthday party! For more flavor coordination, serve this cake with chocolate ice cream. Ingredients: 1 package white cake mix
Nestle Toll House layer cake recipe All it takes is a morsel of perfection Ingredients Cake 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup of firmly-packed brown
Orange Cake recipe The Washington Herald (October 13, 1912) For the cake One-quarter cup butter, one cup sugar, two eggs well-beaten, 1/2 cup milk, 1-2/3
Tropical treat chiffon cake recipe Heat oven to 325 (slow moderate) and… 1. In first bowl, sift together: 2-1/4 cups sifted Softasilk Cake Flour (spoon
The frosting makes the cake! Cake decorating: How to make plaid frosting Betty Crocker Fluffy White Frosting mix beats right up into stiff, snowy “7-minute”
Baker’s new double fudge chocolate frosting — deeper, darker and more delicious than any cocoa could ever make it.
Lacy pink glamour on a thrifty Valentine cake. Snowdrift beauty on a Washington’s Birthday pie. Tempting white fluffiness on a homemade sundae to serve on Lincoln’s Birthday – or any “special” day.
How to make a festive Ring-Around-a-Rosy Cake Materials needed Party mints 1″ in diameter Lollipops 1″ in diameter Food coloring 1 angel food or chiffon
Say it with a Cookiegram Cake Mate gives you all the tips you need to put your thoughts in icing. Campaign cookies, exam cookies, apology cookies,
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