1950s
Ko-ko-nut pie: Vintage ’50s coconut dessert recipe
This Ko-ko-nut pie has a golden lacy top, its luscious filling with delicate coconut shreds – and now you can make it the good old fashioned way!
This Ko-ko-nut pie has a golden lacy top, its luscious filling with delicate coconut shreds – and now you can make it the good old fashioned way!
Baker’s German’s sweet chocolate cake became one of the most famous chocolate cakes – and here’s how to make the original version!
Coconut tops this tropical pineapple rum torte filled with layers of cake in between delicious rum filling made with pudding and whipped topping.
Velvet crumb cake has the fluffy, loose texture, the old-time good eating, of Grandmother’s butter cakes. But it’s even more tender!
Serve your Caribbean coconut chicken with cornbread or French bread, pear-lettuce salad, and a full, dry white table wine.
These Karo lace cookies are so thin & elegant, crisp & crunchy, you can serve them to company, give them as gifts, or hang them on the tree.
Here are three super-cute, easy-to-make vintage Easter basket cakes you can make, based on ideas from the ’50s, ’60s & ’70s!
Here are a few ways to make a happy Easter surprise — cute vintage Easter cakes, using ideas and recipes from the fifties & sixties!
This retro ’60s recipe for Chocoroons – Pillsbury’s scrumptious bar cookies – combines coconut with chocolaty flavor from Nestle’s Quik!
People loved all eight kinds of Snackin’ Cake that you mix, bake and serve it in the same plan. Flavors like Banana Walnut, Chocolate Chip and Coconut Pecan.
Here are some classic Christmas cookie recipes from the ’70s for peanut blossoms, black-eyed Susans, coconut circles, orange drop cookies, pineapple-filled cookies, and Danish pastry apple bars!
Try this Borden holiday eggnog pie, made with a filling of vanilla pudding, eggnog, spice, and whipped topping mix. The result is festive, delicious and easy.
Get some creative retro recipes for coconut Christmas cakes, with various festive holiday designs and themes from the 1940s through the 1980s!
Here are four different spins on a classic coconut eggnog pie recipe – one with bourbon, one with rum, two without booze – all delicious vintage desserts from the 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s.
The cake everyone’s talking about: The rave reviews coconut cake. It’s lusciously moist and walnut-crunchy, topped by a sweet and creamy cream cheese frosting and toasted coconut.
Find out how to make these delicious old-fashioned desserts with recipes for old-fashioned pumpkin dessert squares, a coconut choco-swirl cake & a date bar cake.
If your family enjoys a fluffy refrigerator-type pie, this Thanksgiving, you should try these two no-bake pumpkin pie recipes from the 1950s!
If you love the good, butter-rich flavor of butterscotch pudding just as is… wait till you taste it in a flaky pie shell!
Get the famous Can’t Fail 5-minute fudge recipe, plus 10 more fast vintage fudge recipes that you can easily make right at home!
It’s a joy for the whole family to get in on the planning and making of holiday cookies days and even weeks before Christmas day arrives. Here’s a classic cookie collection from the ’50s.
Easter Glory cake recipe Just as pumpkin pie means Thanksgiving, and plum pudding means “Merry Christmas” — so this luscious gold and white beauty says,
Without a doubt, the humble dump cake has one of the worst names ever, but this sweet treat has still managed to stay popular since its introduction in the mid-sixties. See step-by-step photos for an apple pie dump cake recipe here!
These easy German sweet chocolate brownies are deliciously indulgent, and have a coconut-nut topping!
Holiday chocolate nut squares is a vintage cookie bar recipe with chocolate, pecans or walnuts and coconut on a sweet cookie dough base
When most gifts are going under the tree, here are two Old-fashioned Christmas desserts that will grace your table for the holidays.
This year, treat everyone to a pumpkin chiffon pie with a light and airy filling that’s simple to make. It’s pumpkin perfection: fluffy filling, crunchy crust, a crown of whipped cream.
Once you have made your perfect pumpkin pie – using the classic Libby’s pie recipe or another version – you might want to accent your delicious dessert with one of these tasty pumpkin pie toppings.
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.
This pina colada cake is an attractive, delicious dessert made with packaged yellow cake mix, vanilla pudding mix, coconut – and, of course, rum.
Here’s a retro recipe for a cute Teddy Bear cake made of the nicest things you could imagine. And you can make one easily.
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
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!
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
Frosting, ten different ways This seems a good time to talk about something else new and wonderful in the making of cake and cookie frosting.
To munch on, brunch on, midnight snack on — pudding macaroons. Anything this easy deserves to be enjoyed often.
Ice box cookie cake — so speedy-easy with pudding mix, ice cream, and store-bought coconut cookies.
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
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
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.
Extra-special cookies for Santa (from 1966) Cookies for the jolly gentleman from the North Pole must be extra special — extra special at Christmas too
Funny Face Coconut Pumpkin Pie recipe Having a party on Halloween? Then you’ll welcome this amusing and very easy to make funny face pie. It
Cocoanut Shampoo Wet hair and apply shampoo C L Hamilton Co. — Perfumers — Washington DC Exquisite Creme de Rose For face and hands Use
Coconut Sugar Cookies A thin, crisp cookie that you form with a cookie cutter. Ingredients 2/3 cup butter or margarine 2/3 cup sugar 2 eggs
Taste the flavor of times long gone. In Heartland Natural Cereal. Your first taste of Heartland Natural Cereal will seem strangely familiar. As if you’ve
To top off a meal or serve with late-evening coffee, this festive polka dot pie with toasted marshmallows is as cheerful as sunshine.
Easy Why-Not Cupcakes Where’s the party. No party. What’s happening? Nothing’s happening. Why coconut cupcakes? Why not? Why not indeed? Just because Baker’s Coconut is
Easy Why-Not Coconut Pie What’s the occasion? No occasion. What’s happening? Nothing’s happening. Why coconut pie? Why not. Of course Baker’s Coconut is festive. And
Yum! Yum! New chocolate-coconut party pie The pie shell: Delicious as candy. Easy. Just melt 6 ounces sweet chocolate, 2 tablespoons butter. Stir in 1/2 box
Work all day? You’ll say hooray for Jell-O “busy day” dessert No cooking! Just whip Jell-O Instant Pudding — the busy day dessert — with fresh
Now, pudding is tortoni Cool, sweet, slightly nutty. An Italian favorite. But Jell-O pudding and pie filling makes it part of your own dolce vita.
Favorites from our dining room A fitting end to luncheon at the Institute, this Southern specialty is layered with a rich filling of pecans, fruit,
Coconut grove Twin bars — creamy coconut with luscious bittersweet coating Curtiss assorted fruit drops Curtiss nuggets Baby Ruth, Butterfinger, Coconut Niblets, Dip-Bits,
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