This is kind of a long story. Get a cup of tea…. When I first started my blog in 2018, I went looking for inspiration in my family’s cookbook collection. But after exhausting every one of my mom’s retro cookbooks and recipe files, I turned to Pinterest. I know there are many more recent and […]
Author: laretrorecipe
‘Home Alone’ Gingerbread House
Just over three years ago, in November of 2018, I began working on my Rosehill Cottage Gingerbread House. It was not my first gingerbread house ever, but it was definitely the first of its scale and scope. It took me about a month and a half to complete, and almost immediately after I finished it […]
Caged Rose Cake
I’m back!!!! I didn’t exactly intend to take a roughly three month break from this blog and also social media in general but life caught up with me and I had to take a step back to tend to some of the less sweet things in life. I abandoned my big holiday baking project to […]
Retro “Hallo Witch Cake”
How is it October?! I’ve been so busy lately doing very boring/but kind of exciting/but still pretty boring adult-ing things that I almost let this month pass without a new Halloween recipe. Unacceptable. I hope this cake makes up for my recent lack of content with its cuteness, and I promise there will *fingers crossed* […]