Vintage Cakes

Timeless Recipes for Today’s Sweet Tooth. Recreate from-scratch childhood treats with the updated recipes in Vintage Cakes by master baker and author Julie Richardson. Her to-die-for Texas Sheet Cake, Chocolate Chiffon Cake with Chocolate Whipped Cream and many more will move you to break out the sifter and let the deliciousness begin.

Please Note: The Smithsonian Catalog incorrectly identified this book as including a recipe for Bûche de Noël. Although Vintage Cakes includes 50 recipes, Bûche de Noël is unfortunately not one of them.

Museum Provenance

Kitchen Kitsch is to dining what graphic novels are to the literary world—a delectable guilty pleasure. Inspired by countless pop-culture culinary aids, servers, and textiles in our National Museum of American History's Division of Home and Community Life we offer you wonderfully curated delights to tickle your fancy.

Every Smithsonian purchase will arrive with a museum provenance card explaining how it is adapted from or inspired by an object or objects in our collection.