st patrick’s day

1950s

Springtime fancy cake (1953)

In this ’50s recipe for springtime fancy cake, a homemade yellow cake is spread with green buttercream frosting, then adorned with marshmallow flowers.

Marshmallows and nuts on top of Watergate cake

1970s

Get the Watergate cake recipe with its cover-up icing (1975-1977)

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.

Vintage advertisements

How to make an old-fashioned chocolate mint sundae cake (1949)

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?

1900s

Erin go bragh! 17 antique & vintage St Patrick’s Day postcards from the 1900s

Here, see a collection of antique & vintage St Patrick’s Day postcards — sweet little hello notes people sent to each other a century ago!

1950s

A lucky clover cake for St Patrick’s Day (1950)

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 delicious.