Nostalgic Dessert Menu
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Chocolate Banana Cake
To 1 package Monarch Chocolate Cake Mix, add 1½ cups mashed bananas and ½ teaspoon baking powder. Mix 4–6 minutes.
Bake in 8” layer cake pans, bottoms lined with wax paper, for 25 minutes at 375°F, or in 8” square cake pan for 45 minutes at 350°F.
Chocolate Banana Icing
Cream ½ cup butter or margarine and ½ cup mashed bananas.
Add gradually ⅔ cup cocoa and 2½ cups icing sugar. Cream until smooth.
Frost top and sides and use as filling for layer cake.
To decorate, press diagonal banana slices (which have been dipped in orange juice to prevent discoloring) into sides of cake about 1" apart. Arrange slices on top in flower pattern.
Credits and History:
Chocolate banana cake - monarch advertisement - The Monarch brand has a longstanding history in the American food industry, dating back to the 1850s.
Irish coffee - Fun with Coffee was published in 1956 by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
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1960’s Ice Cream Dessert
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Credits and History:
Pineapple Royale: The "Pineapple Royale"
If pineapple sauce was involved, especially paired with chocolate and strawberries, some parlors leaned into the "Royale" or "King’s Treat" type of names.
Kraft Dessert Toppings: While Kraft doesn’t sell the exact same jarred chocolate fudge sauce like they did in the '60s, their legacy lives on! Kraft’s dessert toppings eventually got folded into other brands. Today, Jet-Puffed (a Kraft brand) carries some dessert sauces, and you’ll find chocolate syrups under brands like Hershey's more commonly now.
Chocolate Fudge
Hershey’s Hot Fudge Sauce
Caramel Sauce
Smucker’s Caramel Topping
Strawberry Topping
Smucker’s Strawberry Topping
Pineapple Topping
Smucker’s Pineapple Topping/Dole Crushed Pineapple
Meadow Gold Ice Cream: The Meadow Gold brand still exists, but its availability depends on where you live, If you’re in states like Hawaii, Utah, Idaho, or parts of the Midwest, you’re more likely to see Meadow Gold products.
Reddi-wip (Still here!)
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