More than 500 recipes, menus, and how-to-do-it tips for festive occasions year 'round... 

{HISTORY}

No one loves planning a party quite like Betty Crocker.

Packed full of creative ideas for seasonal holidays and special events throughout the year, Betty Crocker's Party Book is full of recipes, party themes, decoration ideas, and craft projects for all ages. 

For the 4th of July, red and white striped sailboat cookies glide their way along the buffet table.  Valentine's Day makes a treat out of the holiday with a heart-shaped white coconut cake and Valentine decorated cooky (cookie!) boxes. Easter marks the day with a handmade bunny apron, bunny-shaped sandwiches, and personalized easter eggs. And the biggest section of all is devoted to the craftiest of kitchen joys... Christmas. 

Holidays aside, there are also weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, baby showers, engagement parties, wedding celebrations, and bridal parties to celebrate throughout the year too. In the land of Betty Crocker, there is always something worth celebrating in a festive and merry way, even if it's a "just because" party. 

Debuting in October 1960, just in time for Halloween, Betty Crocker's Party Book was petite in size but big on content with over 500 party planning ideas for festive gatherings with friends and family. For sale for just $1.00, this book was an affordable bit of fun for the whole family with party planning ideas geared towards kids and adults.  Betty Crocker was so confident that this book would be both a creative muse and a practical helper, a 10-day money-back guarantee was offered by General Mills if shoppers weren't excited by its contents. That was never a worry though for General Mills. Like all of Betty Crocker's other cooking and entertaining books, the Party Book was a big hit for years to come.

Previously belonging to a lifelong cookbook collector and vintage aficionado in Oregon, this cookbook has been well cared for over the past sixty-five years and looks practically brand new. 

{SPECIAL FEATURES}

• 1960 First Edition
• 176 pages including detailed index
• Fun theme parties include My Pet Party, Faraway Places Party, Cinderella Party, a Space Age Adventure Party and a Holiday in Hawaii Party 
• Interesting recipes include Coconut Palm Cake, Old Country Italian -spaghetti, Oven Barbecued Beef, Independence Day Salad, Continental Vegetable Casserole, Witchcraft Doughnuts, Orange Frosted Jack Horner Cake, Frozen Pumpkin Pie, Toffee Squares, Old-Fashioned Baked Pears, Honeycomb Cake, Orange Yuletide Tarts, Chocolate Funny Cake, June Punch and Orange Caramel Bars
  
• Spiral binding
• Illustrated throughout by Anne and Harlow Rockwell

{CONDITION}

In beautiful, vintage, yet practically brand-new condition, this book is clean and bright throughout. The spiral binding is strong and secure, and the pages turn smoothly and easily.  A previous owner's name is written in pen on the inside cover. There is a check mark next to the recipe for Toffee Bars - a notation that this was a favorite recipe marked by a previous owner. 

{SIZE}

Measures 8" inches (length) x 5.75" inches (width) x 2.5" inches (thickness) and weighs 9 oz. 

{DONATION SUPPORTED!}

This cookbook gives back! 20% of the proceeds from the sale of this cookbook will be donated to Feeding America- a nationwide network of food banks, food pantries, and local meal programs dedicated to providing nutritious meals to food-insecure communities around the United States.