Best Easter Lamb Cake – Pope Family Lamb Cake With Creamy Whipped Frosting

by RetroRuth | Mar 29, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts, Easter, Holiday, Lamb Cakes & Frostings, The BEST

This lamb cake is very, very good. It has a caramel and butter flavor and is dense but moist. It also has a great pound cake texture! This recipe was sent in by Natalie Pope, and it has been made successfully by the Pope Family for many, many years. And we can see...

Best Easter Lamb Cake – Renalde Lamb Cake With Vintage Birthday Cake Frosting

by RetroRuth | Mar 28, 2013 | Best & Worst, Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts, Easter, Holiday, Lamb Cakes & Frostings, The BEST

If you are looking for a light, bouncy lamb cake with a good texture that pairs well with coconut, this is the cake for you! This recipe comes from Martha K. She was a total sweetheart and sent the lamb cake recipe that was originally included with the vintage Renalde...

Easter Lamb Cake Magic – 10 Tips For The Perfect Retro Easter Lamb Cake

by RetroRuth | Mar 27, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts, Holiday, Lamb Cakes & Frostings

It’s Lamb Cake time again!!! I know everyone thinks that Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but I think Easter might be my favorite time for sweets. I do love those lamb cakes! So, from now until Easter I am going to be posting some excellent tested...

Glazed Tea Cakes – A Mid-Century Gelatin Test

by RetroRuth | Nov 14, 2012 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts, Hello Jell-O

Hooray for gelatin!! Today we have another recipe that was submitted for our Gelatin Contest, but I have to admit that this is one that I was very excited to see because I have been dying to try this recipe for ages. These adorable little things are Glazed Tea Cakes....

Banana Spook Cake – A Vintage Halloween Recipe Test

by RetroRuth | Oct 31, 2012 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts

Happy Halloween!! Since this is a day of thrills, chills and tons of candy, I thought it would be appropriate if I told you all a Halloween tale today. This is a tale of mystery, magic, mashed bananas and heroism.  This is the tale of: THE BANANA SPOOK CAKE! Once...

Apple Cider Upside-Down Cake – A Retro Recipe Re-Run

by RetroRuth | Oct 10, 2012 | Best & Worst, Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts, The BEST

Fall is here and it is time for apples!!! Since I have been hungry for this cake and will probably make it this week, I thought it appropriate to trot this recipe out from the archives so that you could all make it, too. This was an amazing cake that lasted hardly any...