1950s
Quick, like a bunny! Make this Easter egg cake (1953)
Here’s the way to make a happy Easter surprise — a decorated Easter egg cake!
Here’s the way to make a happy Easter surprise — a decorated Easter egg cake!
This easy recipe for homemade Toll House quick ice cream is greatly simplified because it doesn’t need an ice cream maker — simply combine all of the ingredients and pop it in your freezer until it’s firm!
Making this Toll House Pie — basically a big chocolate chip cookie pie — is probably easier than you think!
Are there any chocolate lovers in your house? Surprise them with this chocolate rhapsody cake. Such rich, chocolaty flavor. So lovely and tender.
These white chocolate-orange dream cookies taste almost like orange creamsicles. You can also try the second recipe here for a more traditional chocolate chip cookie: chocolate-orange dreams.
Celebrate with ice cream in a sweet bowl you can eat! These Rice Krispies cups can hold ice cream, frozen yogurt, pudding, candies, or any other kind of treat. It’s easy to make enough for everyone!
Cakes assume custom look when frosted Frosting on the cake has come to mean an extra frippery or frivolity — something not necessary but certainly
Make six dozen delicious m&ms party cookies with m&ms plain chocolate candies – Fun for the kids, fun for you, party cookies are so easy to make! And so bright and festive for the holidays.
Find out how to make these pretty little rolled chocolate chip cookies that you can even decorate for the holidays!
They’ll think you’re sweeter than a marshmallow chick when you make these quick-as-a-bunny egg nests with Rice Krispie Treats and Easter candies!
Cake baked in a pie shell! Sauce that goes on at the top and ends up in a layer at the bottom of the cake! That’s Funny Cake – a Pennsylvania Dutch treat so unusual, so intriguing, everyone who tastes it wants the recipe.
Get two ways to make Banana Boat desserts — one’s like a banana cream pie, and the other is a warm chocolaty treat made on a BBQ or grill!
Originally the fondue was a cheese dish, one cooked with wine and served with bread dunked. Today, the fun-to-do dishes have meats, chocolates or vegetables as their main ingredients.
Three popular flavors come together in one delicious dessert in this vintage recipe for banana ‘lollipops.’ These treats are coated with melted chocolate and peanut butter chips, then rolled in a nutty cereal mixture.
Here’s an easy-to-make recipe for no-bake bar cookies that have a layer of butterscotch flavor (mixed in with Cheerios cereal and marshmallows), that is then topped with a delicious layer of chocolate.
This easy and delicious recipe uses a cupcake or muffin pan to shape these edible ice cream mini bowls, created from Cheerios stirred into a fudgy concoction made with chocolate chips.
Double chocolate fudge “It’s the simplest way to make a delicious dessert. Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk is the key ingredient in all my dessert
Confetti cream cones recipe Made with m&ms peanut chocolate candies Ingredients 2 egg whites 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter or margarine 1/4 cup sugar 2/3
Chocolate Velvet Pie – Made with 3 Musketeers Bars Chocolate Velvet Pie recipe Ingredients 1/2 package pie crust mix Four 3 Musketeers Bars (or 16 Fun-Size
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.
Desserts made out of candy? Kids growing up in the late ’60s and early ’70s probably could hardly believe their good luck when this Snickers bar chocolate rice pudding recipe showed up.
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
Here is a collection of eight deliciously sweet homemade chocolate custard recipes from a variety of vintage cookbooks and newspapers. These are truly old-fashioned recipes, as all were published between 1912 and 1919.
Create a taste of heaven Dreams of a heavenly light Christmas will come true when you start with Duncan Hines light, delicious angel food cake. Chocolate
Cottage pudding goes to town — glorified with Baker’s Chocolate! “How can anything economical taste so divine?” marveled my ritzy Cousin Sophie. Chocolate Cottage Pudding
Toll House Kookie Brittle recipe A delicious variation on America’s favorite cookie treat Ingredients 1 cup margarine 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup
Chocolate Soufflé recipe Ingredients 2 envelopes unflavored gelatin 2-1/4 cups cold water 1-1/2 cups sugar 4 eggs, separated 1 8-ounce package Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese
One bowl brownies! Finally, a scrumptious homemade brownie that’s easy. Guaranteed.
A New Year wish you can make come true! To bake the most luscious New Year’s cakes you ever tasted, follow the easy recipes here.
These shortbread-like cream cookies are super fun and festive when dipped into melted chocolate, and then rolled in edible decorations!
A holiday house — or Christmas cottage — made from Rice Krispies is easier and faster to put together than most conventional gingerbread houses!
Here are six different ways to make authentic old-fashioned chocolate souffle desserts, based on recipes from more than 100 years ago!
Lemon cookie recipes Ingredients: Six cups of sifted pastry flour, three rounding teaspoons of baking powder, two cups of granulated sugar, one cup of butter,
Who will not welcome a Merry Christmas Greeting in the form of a pretty package of your own homemade candy or cookies? Get recipes for caramels, fudge, butterscotch, marshmallow coconut squares and holiday cookies here!
Recipes for Philly Pleasures: Truffles, torte, PB&J pie & banana pudding These luscious new recipes all begin with Philadelphia Brand cream cheese, which actually has half
Children love them Here is a group of irresistible cookies of every kind which you’ll enjoy making as much as giving. Cookies are part of
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
There’s magic in the rich, chocolate moistness of Duncan Hines’ brownies — and in how deliciously they disappear. Mint magic brownies recipe Ingredients 1 Duncan
Brown sugar pinwheel cookie recipe Swirls of cocoa punctuate the brown sugar flavor of these pinwheel cookies. Ingredients 1 cup firmly packed Domino Light Brown
Goody for you! Who can resist Chocolate Refreshers, made with Nestle’s semi-sweet morsels? They’re chewy rich goodies everyone loves! Full of nuts and dates and
Baker’s Broomstick Brownies recipe A Halloween treat so good, it’ll scare you. Ingredients 4 squares Baker’s Unsweetened Baking Chocolate 3/4 cup butter or margarine 2
This vintage recipe for a chocolate pie features a filling of ice cream blended with pudding, then studded with bittersweet chocolate and poured into a graham cracker crust.
Here’s a beautiful way to serve a holiday dessert — in a chocolate bowl! Get the whole how-to here, plus a recipe for a delicious berry cream that makes the perfect filling for your chilled chocolate container.
You’ll be the star of the party when you serve this Choc-O-Lantern Halloween cake. Bewitching and so delicious!
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
Nothing draws a full house like the great taste of Nestle pan cookies All you need is a pan, 20 minutes and the ingredients below.
Chocolate popcorn balls are easy to prepare. When mixed with the popped corn and shaped, the resulting texture is of delightful caramel-like chewiness.
King Mallows recipe – Chocolate with marshmallows Easy fun for the youngsters, too! 1) Melt over hot (not boiling) water, 2 Nestle’s King Size chocolate
Campfire marshmallow fudge cake (1925) 2 tablespoons butter 2 cups sugar 4 squares bitter chocolate, melted 2 eggs 2 cups cake flour 2 teaspoons baking
“I got love and kisses for my Chocolate Orange Cream Pie!” “And I owe it all to Aunt Hetty’s sharp tongue!” Chocolate orange cream pie
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
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