CHOCOLATE MINT SUNDAE CAKE: Vintage Ad with Recipe for St. Patrick's Day!

Here's a great Vintage Ad with Cake Recipe for St Patrick's Day: Chocolate Mint Sundae Cake, "a Luscious St. Patrick's Day Special!"I haven't made this cake, but wanted to share. I love Vintage Ads. BTW, Spry is similar to Crisco.

SWEET STORY CAKE FOR VALENTINE'S DAY: Vintage Ad with Recipe

Here's a great 1948 Vintage Spry Ad for a "Sweet Story Cake" It's perfect for Valentine's Day! "Every Cake Rates a Kiss"   FYI: Spry was similar to Crisco.

SWEET STORY CAKE

Here's the original recipe on the Ad

Ingredients

• For Cake:
• 2½ cups sifted cake flour
• 1½ cups of sugar
• 3½ teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ cup shortening
• ¾ cup milk
• ¼ cup maraschino cherry juice
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 teaspoons almond extract
• 4 egg whites, unbeaten
• 18 maraschino cherries, well drained and finely chopped
• ½ cup walnuts or pecans, finely chopped
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• For Frosting: (I doubled this)
• 2 Tablespoons shortening
• 2 Tablespoons butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ½ teaspoon almond extract
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 4 cups sifted confectioner's sugar
• 9 Tablespoons scalded cream
• Red or pink food coloring

Directions

For Cake:

1. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into mixing bowl. Drop in shortening. Combine milk and maraschino cherry juice and add ¾ cup of this liquid. Add flavoring extracts and mix with mixer on low for 2 minutes (100 strokes by hand).
2. Add remaining liquid and egg whites and beat for another 2 minutes. Fold in cherries and nuts. Bake in two 9-inch pans or two heart-shaped pans at 375 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes. (If you pour all the batter in one pan, bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes)
3. When cool, cut layers with heart shaped pattern, if you didn't use a heart-shaped pan. Spread with frosting, and outline a short Valentine's message with a toothpick and fill in letters and outline of cake with sugar pearls. 
4. For Frosting:
5. Combine shortening, butter, flavorings and salt and blend well. Beat in ½ cup sugar. Add hot cream alternating with remaining sugar, beating well after each addition. Add only enough cream to make a nice spreading consistency. Add a few drops of red or pink food coloring to tint frosting a delicate pink before spreading on cake.

Halloween Devil's Food Ration Cake: Retro Ad with Recipe

Halloween is all about candy, and that means sugar. What to do when sugar is rationed? Well, here's a great Retro Ad & Recipe from the 1940s from Spry for Halloween Ration Cake. It's actually a Devil's Food Cake recipe, so that's perfect for Halloween. Spry, by the way, was a shortening similar to Cisco. This recipe calls for 7/8 cup of sugar. It's a "Wonder-Working" recipe! There was another Ration Recipe at the bottom, but I cut it off. It was for liver.

Read more about Spry HERE.

SWEET STORY CAKE for Valentine's Day: Vintage Ad with Recipe

Here's a great 1948 Vintage Spry Ad for a "Sweet Story Cake" It's perfect for Valentine's Day! "Every Cake Rates a Kiss"   FYI: Spry was similar to Crisco.

 

SWEET STORY CAKE

Ingredients

• For Cake:
• 2½ cups sifted cake flour
• 1½ cups of sugar
• 3½ teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ cup shortening
• ¾ cup milk
• ¼ cup maraschino cherry juice
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 teaspoons almond extract
• 4 egg whites, unbeaten
• 18 maraschino cherries, well drained and finely chopped
• ½ cup walnuts or pecans, finely chopped
•  

• For Frosting: (I doubled this)
• 2 Tablespoons shortening
• 2 Tablespoons butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ½ teaspoon almond extract
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 4 cups sifted confectioner's sugar
• 9 Tablespoons scalded cream
• Red or pink food coloring

Directions

1. For Cake:
2. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into mixing bowl. Drop in shortening. Combine milk and maraschino cherry juice and add ¾ cup of this liquid. Add flavoring extracts and mix with mixer on low for 2 minutes (100 strokes by hand).
3. Add remaining liquid and egg whites and beat for another 2 minutes. Fold in cherries and nuts. Bake in two 9-inch pans or two heart-shaped pans at 375 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes. (If you pour all the batter in one pan, bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes)
4. When cool, cut layers with heart shaped pattern, if you didn't use a heart-shaped pan. Spread with frosting, and outline a short Valentine's message with a toothpick and fill in letters and outline of cake with sugar pearls.
5. For Frosting:
6. Combine shortening, butter, flavorings and salt and blend well. Beat in ½ cup sugar. Add hot cream alternating with remaining sugar, beating well after each addition. Add only enough cream to make a nice spreading consistency. Add a few drops of red or pink food coloring to tint frosting a delicate pink before spreading on cake.

ST PATRICK'S DAY CHOCOLATE MINT SUNDAE CAKE: Retro Ad & Recipe

So you're Sheltered in Place this year for St. Patrick's Day?.No parade, no green beer, no camaraderie, no "Kiss Me, I'm Irish." Here's a way to celebrate at home with your closest and dearest. This Retro Chocolate Mint Sundae Cake is delicious, and you probably have all the ingredients in your pantry. Happy St. Patrick's Day! Drive the Snakes and the Virus out of Ireland and the World!

Halloween Devil's Food Ration Cake: Retro Ad & Recipe

Halloween is all about candy, and that means sugar. What to do when sugar is rationed? Well, here's a great Retro Ad & Recipe from Spry for Halloween Ration Cake. It's actually a Devil's Food Cake recipe, so that's perfect for Halloween, too. Spry, by the way, was a shortening similar to Cisco. This recipe calls for 7/8 cup of sugar. It's a "Wonder-Working" recipe! There was another Ration Recipe at the bottom, but I cut it off. It was for liver.

Read more about Spry HERE.

Halloween Ration Cake: Retro Ad & Recipe

Halloween is all about candy, and that means sugar. What to do when sugar is rationed? Well, here's a great Retro Ad & Recipe from Spry for Halloween Ration Cake. It's actually a Devil's Food Cake recipe, so that's perfect for the holiday, too. Spry, by the way, was a shortening similar to Cisco. This recipe calls for 7/8 cup of sugar. It's a "Wonder-Working" recipe! There was another Ration Recipe at the bottom, but I cut it off. It was for liver.

Read more about Spry HERE.