Celebrating Chronically Vintage's 3rd birthday with Colorvision Pink Swirl Cake

Time flies. It also runs, hops, dances, and parades through the ever expanding volume that is human history. Every second of every day, it marches onward leading to great days and ordinary ones, memorable events and others that are forgotten before they're even done. As I've gotten older, one thing I've noticed is that we - as a species - tend to recall the highs and the lowest the best, our minds filtering out some of the rest to make room for those exciting and important times that are waiting on the horizon still for us.

Filled squarely under the "good day" heading, is today's date, April 18th. For it was on this day precisely three years ago, that I decided to launch Chronically Vintage (for musings on the events that lead to that transpiring, check out my first and second blogiversary posts).

To celebrate this auspicious milestone (CV's third birthday), I thought it would be fun to share one of the girliest, delightfully fun 1950s cake recipes you could ever hope to encounter.

Sporting the instantly loveable name of Colorvision Pink Swirl Cake, this recipe from 1951 is created by adding  your favourite fruit gelatine (Jell-o) to a Betty Crocker marble cake that you whip up from scratch.

Here the the recipe is done up in pink, which since it just happens to be my all-time favourite hue, is what I'd be inclined to go with for a birthday or anniversary celebration like today, but you could certainly opt for any other colour you desired.

{Get your mid-century baking grove on with this thoroughly enjoyable 1950s pink marble cake recipe. It's just the ticket for all kinds of holidays, celebrations, and day-to-day desserts alike. Image via vintage.kitten on Flickr.}

Come Halloween you could use orange Jell-o for an autumnal hit, lime gelatine for Christmas or St. Patrick's Day, blue raspberry for the 4th of July, grape for Mardi Gras, the list goes on and on. Aside from just looking fantastic, fruit flavoured marble cakes taste delicious and the gelatine involved here helps ensure your finished cake stays wonderfully moist.

The frosting, too, can be tinted any colour you wish, and there's certainly nothing to say that you have to match the frosting hue to that of the marble cake. Just think of how fun red frosting would be with a green marble cake (or vice versa) for Christmas.

The name of this cake hails from the fact that coloured TV programming was starting to become more widespread at the start of the 50s, and like many fads of the era, it was easy to get people's attention if you incorporated words associated with them into other areas of life.

If such a thing were possible, I would bake a humungous Colorvision Pink Swirl Cake and invite you all over for a shindig to join in my merriment today. Over the past three years, I've shared some the best and roughest moments of my life with all of you. You've listened, supported, encouraged, and blessed my life with your friendship and avid readership.

In turn your own sites have provided me with volumes of inspiration, knowledge, and the sense of being part of a community of kindred spirits. I treasure each of you very much and am nothing short of elated to jump into the next year of vintage blogging with all of you.

Thank you everyone for being so much a part of the reason why this site is going strong and feeling so optimistic after three years. Join me, sweet friends, in raising a proverbial glass to the future of Chronically Vintage and all of the adventures and every day moments alike that are just waiting to be experienced and blogged about.

Here's to the beauty, wonder, and intrigue of the future and what it holds in store for this site - as well as to each and every one of you!!!