Old fashioned cake recipes

Simple old fashioned cake recipes that you may remember Grandma making when you were a child.

How to start this post? YUMMMM...we loved this cake...we couldn't stay away from it...we ate it for dessert and then we ate it for breakfast... This beautiful cake recipe is a 100 year old treasure and a keeper! Reeni of Cinnamon Girl discovered this recipe in an old McCall's cookbook published in 1910, and she too fell in love with this fluffy, moist, easy-to-prepare cake and was good enough to share it with the rest of us so that we could enjoy it as well. Thank you, Reeni! If you are not…

A lovely white cream cake with an amazingly yummy old-fashioned vanilla flavor topped with a lightly caramel-flavored frosting that is divine.

I have the urge to start this post by saying hey, y’all. I know, so cliche but it’s truly how most of us southerners great each other. Another reason why I wanted to say hey y’all was because this post is about one of the most storied cakes related to the south and that’s the old fashioned pound cake. Not a bundt cake, but a pound cake made with 1/2 pound of butter and baked in a tube pan. The real deal, legit pound cake. I’m sure you’re wondering why I am sharing a pound cake recipe the…

This Old Fashioned Butter Cake can be made in layers, as a sheet cake or cupcakes. Frost with your favorite icing for any special occasion.

Baking has made a comeback with old-school cake recipes and old-fashioned favourites hitting that nostalgic baking note. So get your vintage cake bake on and relive childhood with these retro cake recipes.

An old-fashioned recipe for the most tender and delicious Hot Milk Cake! It's just like grandma used to make, and melt-in-your-mouth amazing

Old Fashioned Sugar Cake-made in a cast iron skillet, no icing needed for this light and flavorful cake! I love my cast iron. Some of it I’ve had for years. When we used to go camping, there was nothing better than cooking over the fire in my cast iron skillet. Everything tasted…better. Especially breakfast. Maybe…

This oversized, homemade donut cake will be the hit of any party. Or, when topped with candles, it makes a fun and clever surprise for a donut-loving birthday boy or girl.

This indulgent German Chocolate Cake recipe uses my mamaw's old fashioned coconut pecan frosting to create THE BEST German Chocolate Cake ever!