Bunny Salad (Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls, 1970)

Bunny Salad
Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls

For each serving, place crisp lettuce leaf on plate.

On top of lettuce, place upside down: 1 chilled pear half

Make bunny with narrow end for face.

Eyes: 2 raisins
Nose: 1 red cinnamon candy
Ears: 2 blanched almonds
Tail: cottage cheese ball

Rocket Salad (Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls 1970s)

Rocket Salad

Source:  Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls

For each serving, place a crisp lettuce leaf on a salad plate.   

Launching Pad: 1 slick pineapple

Rocket: 1/2 peeled banana set upright in center of pineapple slice

Nose Cone: 1/2 maraschino cherry fastened to top of banana with a toothpick

Cereal Tricks (Betty Crockers Cookbook for Boys and Girls 1960)

Little Man Who Wasn't There (top left corner)
Half  banana in Kix, raisin eyes and nose, cherry mouth, orange hat.


Winken, Blinken and Nod ( bottom left corner)

3 maraschino cherries sitting in half banana, an apple slice for sail, on Trix.


Pig in a Poke (top right corner)

Half pear on Sugar Jets, raisin eyes and nose, apple slices for ears.


Fatso (bottom right corner)

Half peach on Cheerios, raisin eyes, maraschino cherry nose, apple slice for mouth.

Paintbrush Cookies (Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls)

Paintbrush Cookies
Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls,1960's


Mix thoroughly:

1/3 cup soft shortening
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
2/3 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla

Stir in:

2 3/4 cups sifted Gold Medal Flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp salt

Chill. Heat oven to 375. Roll dough out on floured pastry cloth, using floured covered rolling pin. Roll to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut in different shapes.

Set on greased baking sheet. Paint designs with Egg Yolk Paint.

Bake 8-10 minutes. For clear colors, do not let cookies brown.

Egg Yolk Paint

Blend well one egg yolk and 1/4 tsp water. Divide mixture among several small custard cups. Add a different food coloring to each cup to make bright colors. Paint designs on cookies with small paintbrushes. If egg yolk paint thickens on standing, add a few drops of water.

Drum Cake (Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls )

Drum Cake 
Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls,circa 1960's

Bake cake in layers as directed on Betty Crocker's Chocolate Devil Food Cake Mix package. Frost cooled cake with Betty Crocker Fluffy White Frosting mix.

On sides of cake, press striped peppermint candy sticks at angles into icing all around cake. Set a maraschino cherry at ends of each stick. If you like, cross 2 candy sticks on top of cake for drumsticks.