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Pork Cake – A Mid-Century Christmas Recipe Re-Run

by RetroRuth | Dec 18, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts | 16 comments

In preparation for the upcoming Five Days of Fruitcake here on the blog (starting on Friday, 12/20!) I thought I would pull this unusual, and somewhat controversial, fruitcake from our archive! Pork cake made us laugh and it made us cry, but the one thing that it...

Molasses Cupcakes with Candied Ginger Mascarpone Frosting – A Retro Recipe Redone

by RetroRuth | Sep 9, 2013 | Mid-Century Recipes Redone | 2 comments

Technically I suppose these ended up being more of a gingerbread cupcake that a molasses cupcake, but when I started out messing with the recipe for the Molasses Layer Cake I was really focused only one thing: Cupcake. Cupcake, cupcake, cupcake! So in the end, adding...

Molasses Layer Cake – A Vintage Church Cookbook Recipe Test

by RetroRuth | Jun 12, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts | 7 comments

It’s time for some good, old-fashioned cake. Molasses cake, to be exact. This week we are going back to the From Ridgewood Kitchens church cookbook for another recipe. But this time I picked a cake rather than a gelatin because…well…I felt like cake. Print Molasses...