Ah, the good old days of culinary genius!

One of my stranger Christmas presents this year was a set of 1970's recipe cards. Among the gems were these two Canadian cakes. Those crazy Canadians - what
WON'T they get up to?!







My British cakes must seem so boring to Ryan, seeing as he obviously grew up with fruity. colourful numbers like these ....


Or did he? There was also this wondrous Australian cake among the "family favourites", but James swears he has never seen a cake even vaguely representing this one in all the years he spent growing up in Australia:


Which is understandable, seeing as I've never (thankfully!) encountered this British cake: