Yes We Cake

Check out this sweet cake from Nora Leah Sherman, author of the blogs Thought for Food and 2050AD.org.  Not only is the cake home to giant awesome Dem noggins, but it’s made from historically appropriate old timey recipes!  Yay Nora!

Nora was kind enough to provide us with some info on the recipes so you can make them yourself!

A few days before “Super Tuesday” in February, I baked Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton cakes using a pair of lemon cake recipes created by two Midwestern women for the 1876 presidential election.  It was part of my year-long quest to cook my way through American history, which I recorded on a blog I called The Great American Cooking Project.

Living a half a century before universal suffrage, Miss Flora Ziegler of Columbus and Mrs. T. B. of Chicago were banned from the voting booth, but that didn’t keep them from baking — and speaking — their minds.  Their recipes for Hayes Cake and Tilden Cake were printed in a national magazine before the election and published the following year inBuckery Cookery and Practical Housekeeping.  I just love the idea of those proto-feminist women thinking to themselves, I’m going to make the best recipe I can for my man and my country. 

That Obama cake was goo-ood.  Like sweet-potato-pie-good.  (The Clinton cake fell in the middle). It was, truly, a cake we can believe in.  I’m going to bake it again on Nov. 4th — and I invite you to do so, too.  Find the recipe here.

Awesome!  Thanks so much Nora!