29 Responses to Swans Down Wartime Cake Recipes – Vintage 1943
Linda Ingles
Published 9 November, 2008 in 9:51 am
I am going to make this cake for the nursing home I work at.. ca I substitute splend whte and brown sugar for these recipes and have it come out OK.LINDA
admin
Published 11 November, 2008 in 12:20 pm
I’m not sure Linda, if you give it a try make sure to let us know :).
CINDY TODD
Published 10 May, 2009 in 1:00 pm
MY MOM HAS MISPLACED HER RECIPES FOR LEMON CHIFFON CAKE AND BANANA NUT CAKE THEY ARE FROM THE 50’S. IF ANYONE COULD HELP I WOULD BE SO EVER GRATFUL
THANK YOU CINDY TODD
vonda
Published 25 June, 2009 in 1:56 pm
Hi, this is my first visit to your websiste. You are a Godsend; I have egg allergies and needed some desserts without them. Thanks for the Eggless Chocolate Cake recipe. Please keep them coming!
Vonda
GINNY
Published 6 April, 2010 in 1:46 pm
there used to be a recipe on the back of the swans down cake flour box for (I think it was called) a happy day cake. can I get that recipe?????
Teresa
Published 19 May, 2010 in 6:11 am
Happy Day Cake
2½ cups sifted cake flour
1½ cups sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1/2 cup shortening, at room temperature
1 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 eggs
Sift flour with sugar, baking powder and salt. Stir shortening to soften. Add flour mixture, ¾ cup of the milk and vanilla. Mix until all flour is dampened, then beat two minutes at medium speed. Add eggs and remaining ¼ cup milk. Beat one minute longer. Pour into two 9-inch layer pans that have been lined with parchment paper. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pans; remove from pans and cool thoroughly on racks.
This cake also may be baked in three 8-inch layer pans for 25 to 35 minutes, or in a 13- by 9-inch pan for 30 to 35 minutes. Batter may be spooned into 36 medium paper baking cups in muffin pans, filling half full. Bake at 375 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
Carol Renner
Published 21 August, 2010 in 6:38 pm
Hi, all – thank you for the Happy Day cake recipe. I also remember a spice cake version of the Happy Day Cake – would anyone know that? Thanks, and I really enjoy this website!
bETH mullarkey
Published 4 September, 2010 in 9:11 am
I made a cake that had the receipe on the Swans Down Cake Flour box around 1989 it was a strawberry cake with buttercream icing. Can anyone find that receipe and send it to me
Marie Aiken
Published 15 September, 2010 in 9:57 pm
I have been trying to find the Happy Day recipe for years. My beloved aunt, who passed away 3 years ago, used to make this when I was a child.She never wrote it down ’cause it was on the box!
Roger Hufferd
Published 3 October, 2010 in 2:15 pm
I’m looking for a recipe from Swans Down “Black Magic” cake flour. I pulled it off a pad of recipes in a store around 1950. My mom raved over it, and then the recipe was lost. (very sad)
CorineB.
Published 16 October, 2010 in 5:53 pm
From a friend – see if this is it.
4 sq unsw choc, 4 tbsp shortening , 2 c sugar, 3 egg yolks… If so, email me and I will send it. Please put Black Magic Cake in the subject line!
Terri
Published 24 October, 2010 in 12:46 pm
Black magic cake – was this the receipe? Care to share it with us?
kathy
Published 3 November, 2010 in 6:46 pm
Someone was looking for a Black Magic Cake. I found this recipe. (not Swans Down)
1 pound light brown sugar
2 cups flour, sifted
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup hot water
1 stick butter or margarine
2 squares dark chocolate
2 eggs separated
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup sugar
4 tablespoons flour
1 cup water
2 squares of chocolate
The first group of ingredients is for the cake, the second for the icing. To make the cake, mix brown sugar, flour, and salt together in a large bowl. In a sauce pan, mix hot water, butter or margarine, and dark chocolate. Mix until smooth, more heat may be needed. Cool and add to flour mixture. Separate eggs. Beat yolks in buttermilk. Add soda and vanilla. Combine buttermilk and first mixture. Beat egg whites separately and fold in last. Bake in generously greased 9 x 13 inch pan at 350° for 30 to 35 minutes. While cake is baking, combine sugar and flour in icing ingredients in sauce pan. Add water and chocolate. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until thick. (Icing does not get real thick, just cook until it clears and simmers 2 or 3 minutes.) Spread icing on cake in pan while both are still warm.
TOBYE
Published 15 November, 2010 in 2:39 pm
My mom used to make a large red, white and blue jello mold in a glass brandy snifter. It was a family favorite and now she is gone and we cannot find it anywhere. I think the white was actually lemon with either ice cream or cool whip
muriel j
Published 23 November, 2010 in 11:40 am
I am looking for a prune spice cake with a hot topping over it. I believe she got the recipe from her local home bureau.
Janet Kerr
Published 1 January, 2011 in 7:53 pm
My mother used to make a one egg cake. The recipe was on the back of the Swans Down Cake Flour box. Does anyone have a copy of this recipe?
Tom Leith
Published 19 March, 2011 in 11:33 pm
This looks like the place for odd cake recipes. My 90+ year old mother in law (grew up in South St. Louis, Missouri) says “Mother Mellon Cake” is her very favorite cake. I’m sure it has more to do with the memories that go with the cake than to do with the cake itself, but at her age memories are important. Has anyone heard of this??
phyllis bishop
Published 6 May, 2011 in 7:26 am
i am looking for the recipe for chocolate cake as found on the swansdown cake box in the 40s or 50s
Doris Warren
Published 15 June, 2012 in 8:57 am
I’m looking for the receipe on Swandown cake flour box in the ’50’s.
Betty
Published 20 January, 2015 in 9:33 pm
Does anyone have the old recipe for chocolate cherry cake? I think it was on the Swansdown cake flour box.
From the 40’s or 50’s
Thank you
Jobin
Published 3 May, 2015 in 9:41 am
Can I use regular cake flower instead of Swans Down Cake Flour?
-Jobin
Betty
Published 4 September, 2015 in 8:34 am
did anyone find the recipe for the chocolate cake that has canned cherries in it? It was on the box of Swansdown cake flour. Thanks
Janice Dranka
Published 14 September, 2015 in 3:59 pm
I am looking for a Recipe that was on the box of Swans Down cake flour in the 1940s. It was a Red Devils Food Chocolate Cake. It was made without milk and Bakers Unsweet Chocolate in Squares and it has eggs in it. Thank you ,Janice Dranka
NANCY HENDRICKS
Published 21 March, 2018 in 2:03 pm
I love the happy day cake recipe. My mom made it every birthday. I am looking for a cookie recipe which was old using cream cheese roled with a sweet walnut filling.
NANCY HENDRICKS
Published 21 March, 2018 in 2:04 pm
I am looking for a cookie recipe which was old using cream cheese rolled with a sweet walnut filling.
Sharon Toji
Published 28 April, 2018 in 2:21 pm
After years of searching I found my favorite Swansdown recipe from the forties “Magic Spice Cake” on a copy of an old advertisem*nt, but now I’ve lost it again. I even sent it in to a heritage recipe site, but nothing stirs it up. It was one of the “one bowl” cakes, and was originally included on a folder of recipes in the Swansdown box. It called for sour milk, which we often made with vinegar in milk, and was a mild, somewhat fluffy spice cake — delicate flavor. I used to frost it with 7 minute icing and won first price a couple of years at the Umatilla Co Fair in Oregon when I was very young. I wanted to make it for my 82nd birthday!
Diane
Published 8 May, 2021 in 8:30 pm
Does anyone have the Swan’s Down flour and orange juice cake recipe?
Sharon
Published 6 October, 2021 in 3:05 pm
I am looking for a 1 layer cake with coconut, pecan filling/frosting on top. After you bake the cake you put the frosting on top & put it back in the oven for a minute or two. My mother made this regularly.
Thank you.
Barbara Villanueva
Published 21 August, 2022 in 6:24 pm
I’m looking for the recipe that the person on9/14/15
Is looking for. Do you have this recipe?
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