This weekend I had a chance to try out a cake I’d wanted to
try for a long time. A Frosty Snowberry Cake, from a 1950s-era Pillsbury
Bake-Off book. The “snowberries” are actually cubes of jellied cranberry sauce
that are folded into the batter. The ingredients were the most basic of
staples: flour, sugar, egg whites, shortening, and baking powder. By a happy
coincidence, I even had the ingredients that I don’t have every day: light corn
syrup and cream of tartar for the boiled frosting. Vintage kitchen implements that have gone unused in the time
we’ve been here were finally pressed into service. A glass double boiler. Cake
pans with metal slider releases.
Cakes seemed healthier in the 1950s than they are today. No pudding in the mix. No preservatives to give the cake the longevity of Twinkies. My son Wyatt said the cake was “chewy.” I think he meant “bready.” The cake didn’t quite look like the picture shown here, as cakes that come out of our $99 oven tend to look like the Metrodome after it collapsed. However, it scored major points for satisfaction. The cranberry sauce gave the cake the taste and texture of a jelly roll. I didn’t have food coloring to tint the frosting pink, so I added a pinch of raspberry Jell-O instead. It did the job just fine.
Here’s the recipe for Frosty
Snow-berry Cake, which was the Senior Winner in the 1953 Pillsbury
Bake-Off. Mrs. Marguerite Marks of
Camden, New Jersey did herself proud!
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