Low-Fat Chocolate Torte
This guilt-free chocolate dessert relies on pureed prunes for moisture and sweetness, and on coffee for flavor.
Mom’s Pound Cake
Mom first made this pound cake to take to a stitching party. Her friends loved it so much, it became a repeat request. It’s a classic, super-moist pound cake.
Mom’s Italian Cream Cake
Italian Cream Cake is a Southern favorite. Coconut and chopped nuts are baked into the cake, which is frosted with cream cheese icing.
Coconut Cake
I had my first taste of coconut cake while visiting relatives in Georgia. I was in heaven! Light white cake with merenguey icing, covered in coconut. It doesn’t get any better than that. When I got home I scoured the Internet for recipes, finally creating this one myself.
Sarah’s Sherried Prune Cake
Receiving this recipe gave me a huge thrill, because it was the first time someone I didn’t know (from Australia!) had found the Web site, liked it, and decided to share a recipe with me via the Internet.
She plumps prunes in sherry and bakes them into a cake, which she then ices.
Matt’s Chocolate Cake
This cake was legendary in the halls of National Instruments. Matt is a wonderful cook, and he’s equally wonderful about bringing food to share with his coworkers. He made this cake for Denise’s birthday, and she raved about the Hershey chocolate icing.
Glenda’s Pineapple-Nut Cake
This simple cake is flavored with nutmeg, cinnamon, crushed pineapple, and chopped pecans.
Glenda’s Chocolate Cake
This cake based on a cake mix, pudding mix, and sour cream also has chocolate chips, melted chocolate, and pecans.
Kelly’s Hummingbird Cake
One of my neighbors baked this cake in secret at my house for her husband’s birthday one year. The cinnamon, pineapple, banana, and pecan cake with cream cheese icing was one of his childhood favorites, and he was thrilled.