Ever Ready Frosting and Chocolate Sauce

A chocolate frosting made with Nestlé’s Ever Ready cocoa mix that can easily be thinned into chocolate sauce.

A chocolate frosting made with Nestlé’s Ever Ready cocoa mix that can easily be thinned into chocolate sauce.

Duncan Hines Double Chocolate Nuggets are easy cake-mix cookies packed with semisweet chocolate pieces and an optional pecan on top.

A rich Devil’s Food Pound Cake made with Duncan Hines cake mix, chocolate pudding, and Crisco Oil, finished with a simple chocolate glaze.

A colorful 1960s M&M’s cookie recipe made with shortening and plenty of M&M’s, with extra candies pressed on top before baking.

Chocolate cake made with Stokely fruit cocktail and topped with chocolate pieces and nuts.

Rich and sweet cookie bars made with chocolate chips, graham cracker crumbs, and condensed milk.

A typed recipe for Devil’s Food Cake with Filling and Icing—rich buttermilk chocolate cake paired with an unexpected orange-flavored filling and frosting.

A typed recipe for Hershey Bar Cornflakes Cookies—melt a candy bar, add cornflakes, dates, and nuts, and suddenly not turning on the oven sounds delicious.

A handwritten recipe for Susie’s Chocolate Oatmeal Cake brings cocoa, oats, and coconut frosting together in one pan—proof that oatmeal knows how to have a good time.

A handwritten recipe for Chocolate Indians With Frosting—24 cocoa-and-nut squares, warm frosting, and one important instruction: “Eat same day!”

A typed 1954 recipe for Fudge Cookies—chocolate, marshmallows, graham cracker crumbs, and nuts come together without ever turning on the oven.