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Japanese Fruit Cake Even though this cake is called the Japanese Fruit Cake, it originated in the south in the early 1900's. America had...

Neighborhood Prune Cake Prunes were originally planted, during colonial times, in California by Spanish Franciscan Monks. In the 1850's,...

Grandma's Mincemeat Cake with Caramel Icing For many families in the early 1900's mincemeat signaled the end of the garden. Nothing was...

Cinnamon Flop Amish families came from Switzerland and Germany as early as 1727 and settled mostly in eastern Pennsylvania. While the...

Wellesley Fudge Cake The Wellesley Fudge Cake was inspired by fudge that was made by young women at Wellesley College. This cake is deep...

Lazy Daisy Cake The Lazy Daisy cake was written about as early as 1914 in the Chicago Sunday Tribune. A woman named Margaret Hill from...

The Lane Cake The Lane Cake's biggest claim to fame is an honorable mention in the literary classic, To Kill A Mockingbird. The...

Lady Baltimore Cake The Lady Baltimore cake is filled with walnuts, raisins, and sherry soaked figs and topped with boiled sugar icing....

Date Loaf Cake Growers and grocers shared recipes that used dates in hopes that the customers would buy more and expand the popularity of...

Louisiana Syrup Cake In the French speaking area of Louisiana this cake was called, gateau de sirop. This cake was a very easy spice cake...

Woohoo, I have entered the next century! Huge changes happened in baking at the beginning of the 20th century. New technology such as the...

1-2-3-4 Cake This cake is so simple, it tells you the recipe in the name; 1 cup of butter, 2 cups of sugar, 3 cups of flour, and 4 eggs...

American Jelly Roll In the late 1800's most people did not have custom baking pans to make cakes in so they had to be resourceful with...

Bangor Brownies BROWNIES!! This treat comes only second to chocolate chip cookies for me. I love the density and richness of a brownie,...

Mahogany Cake with Seven-Minute Frosting Although chocolate cakes were gaining popularity, chocolate was harder to come by and was a lot...

Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake A little Chocolate cake history: All hail Sarah Rorer, a dietician, the director of the Philadelphia Cooking...

Milwaukee Sunshine Cake Cake History: In the late 1800's Sunshine cakes were popular across America. The most famous one was baked by the...

Angel Food Cake The Angel Food cake has been known by many names; Silver Cake, Lady Cake, White Sponge Cake, and Angel Food. Angel Food...

Scripture Cake In the 1880's and 90's this spiced fruitcake was baked for church suppers. It was also known as Scriptural Cake or Bible...

Shoofly Pie In the 1880's, the Pennsylvania Dutch put molasses crumb cake in a pie crust and called it Shoofly Pie. The crust was added...