by RetroRuth | May 1, 2011 | Cake & Cupcakes, Vintage Food Photography
Apparently, making a lamb cake from your lamb pan is for losers!!! Introducing: Pup on Pillow, Puss in Boots, Holiday Stag and Fawn for Easter. No “lambs” here! From Good Housekeeping’s Cake Book, 1958
by RetroRuth | Apr 27, 2011 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts, Lamb Cakes & Frostings
Hello again and welcome to another fun vintage recipe test!!! This week we have a very important and serious thing to talk about. Lamb Cake. Every year since I have been about 16 I have tried to make a cake in the shape of a lamb for Easter. I inherited a fantastic...
by RetroRuth | Feb 2, 2011 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts, The BEST
You know, I spend a lot of time thinking about food. I mean, mostly it’s bad food, but no matter how bad it is, it is still food. A lot of other people think about food, too. In fact, many people are obsessed with it. I mean, look at “food porn” . What in God’s name...
by RetroRuth | Jul 7, 2010 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts
Happy Wednesday! I hope that your holiday weekends were all fantastic. Mine…was wet. Very wet. Tom and I drove to see my parents and drop off little Clark (one of the last of the foster kittens) with them, and afterwards did some camping in the UP. Ugh. I...
by RetroRuth | Aug 26, 2009 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts
Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu! I have to confess to a bit of poor planning on my part. I didn’t put two and two together on this one, and I planned Menu night for the same night that we were suppose to go to a ballgame and eat hot dogs for...
by RetroRuth | May 6, 2009 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts
Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu! Normally, this is where I cook a terrifiying recipe from the 1950s or 1960s and serve it to my poor husband for dinner, but if you have been reading my blog this week you know that I am visiting my parents in Wisconsin. ...
