I love the idea of baking a snowman cake, frosting and decorating it and just putting it in the middle of a table so kids can have a...

It's "what do I do with all this leftover pumpkin?" season! Here's one answer: my Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting!...

I titled this recipe "Red Velvet Run Cupcakes," for a WWL-TV segment featuring my party food for the Red Dress Run in New Orleans, August...

The Mardi Gras King Cake of New Orleans is descended from the "galette des rois" of France. The galette was usually made of puff pastry...

No matter how you cut it, (OR what you call it! cake? loaf? bread?) Dame Angela's Walnut Date creation is a durable recipe for the ages....

This one is a gem of my vintage cookbook collection. It is undated, but based on the illustrations, photography and typefaces I'm going...

NY Cake supply store is one of my favorite things because it is SO full of hard-to-find cake-baking essentials not to mention wild...

Swans Down Cake Flour has been around since the 1890's. General Foods may have introduced the first cake mix in 1945 with Swans Down,...

World's Most Delicious Three-Layer White Cake, and Chocolate Frosting. From "The Infinite Feast: How to Host the Ones You Love—Recipes...

This OXO Good Grips set of cups and spoons is one of my very favorite things! This is the only measuring cup set I'll own, and I have...

Here, from approximately 1955, we have Betty's recipe for banana loaf! Now, chances are she never cooked this up herself, as she was...

I've always loved the photography in this pre-1950's advertising cookbooklet for all things French's. The inviting cover. Dash of nutmeg...

First, here's a shot of just some of the many other tasty dishes in this classic cookbook. Scroll on for the big Valentine's Luncheon! ...

The First Book of Holidays, by Bernice Burnett, pictures by Marjorie Glaubach, 1955. Here is the Halloween chapter from a charming book...

Yee-haw! My grandma in Houston gave me this cookbook a while ago and I sure do like it. Full of history and colorful stories about the...

It's rare you come across a vintage book dedicated just to Easter ideas. Christmas and other special occasions yes, Easter not so much....

If you can get your hands on a 3-D Lamb Cake Mold in time for Easter Amazon link right here! then this charming cake will be the...

One of Betty's spiral-bound charmers. Highlights from the Christmas chapter include: door decor, wreaths, tree-trimming, a "cooky" swap...

Full title: Better Homes and Gardens Treasury of Christmas Ideas, 1966 This is an unusually ambitious book full of Christmas decorating...

Full name: James Beard's Complete Cookbook for Entertaining 1954 Cover design: George Peter Inside drawings: Harry Rosenbaum From...