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Category: Cake

May 11, 2019May 11, 2019laretrorecipe

Lemon Poppy Seed Bundt

One of my inspirations for starting a retro-themed blog was the gigantic, exploding green binder that lives on a shelf in my parents kitchen. It’s stuffed with a collection of crinkled papers from the past, recipes cut from magazines and newspapers, single leafs torn from tattered cookbooks, the odd school report card or holiday to-do […]

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March 30, 2019June 20, 2019laretrorecipe

Yellow Cake & Year One

It is no surprise to me, and completely in keeping with my personality, that by the time I’ve actually arrived at the post where I’m supposed to reflect about having this blog for one year, I am wholly sick of reminiscing. I feel like I’ve spent the last three months doing a little too much […]

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February 9, 2019February 17, 2019laretrorecipe

Sweet-heart Valentine Cake

One of the best sources I use for finding retro recipe inspiration is from vintage brand advertisements. And, since I (tragically) don’t possess an endless personal library of such material, I often turn to the internet for resource. Nine times out of ten I end up on Pinterest. I never really valued the site much […]

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January 18, 2019February 17, 2019laretrorecipe

“Rosie” Chocolate Cupcakes

The idea for these cupcakes started out as a very conceptual ode to “Rosie the Riveter”, the cultural icon who represents the role of women in the economy of World War II and, nowadays, serves as a ubiquitous symbol of feminism. The real Rosies were the working women who comprised the industrial labor force during […]

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November 2, 2018February 17, 2019laretrorecipe

Humming Carrot Cake

Excuse the name. It was between this and “Carrot Bird Cake” but that was a little too avian for my liking. If you’re confused, this cake is a mashup of two formerly separate entities; it is a marriage of cake (the best kind of marriage, in my opinion). Carrot Cake has been a tried-and-true staple […]

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Hi, I’m Hannah! I read about food, I make food, I eat food, and I nap. I have a love for vintage recipes and kitchenware. I live in Detroit, Michigan.

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