So when I saw the challenge for the Retro Recipe Challenge I thought, "what fun". We had to find a recipe from our birth year(well actually within 5 years of our birth year). All was good untll I started looking for the actual recipe. Not many recipes are readily avaiable from the 70's and those that were, we're not that appetizing....no wonder I lived off of Kraft dinner and fish sticks as a kid. But I found salvation when I ran across my very first cookbook. The Mickey Mouse Cookbook(published 1975). Oh how my poor mother was stuck making me many an item from this cookbook. Now, even though this was a cookbook, it was for kids, so the actual cooking on many things was minimal. I found The Seven Dwarfs' Cupcakes....oh good baking. An extremely easy recipe. It said it made twelve, but really only made 7(how fitting). There is one basic recipe with 7 different adaptations so I decided to make one of each. When I was younger we only made two of the seven types possible so I really … [Read more...]