Layers of rich Red Velvet Cake with decadent cream cheese frosting are topped with chocolate hearts for an added, loving touch.
Tortes
Red Velvet Cherry Torte
Red Velvet Cherry Torte garnished with icing and toasted almond slivers create this easy and delicious cake.
Potato Chocolate Torte
Ground almonds, cinnamon, lemon zest, and mashed (‘riced’) potatoes are the key to this moist chocolate torte.
Chocolate Bar Torte
My mom made this dessert every Christmas for 50 years. Now it’s one of my family’s traditions since she passed on.
Elegant Easy Torte
This is a beautiful dessert that’s great for any party and can easily be decorated to suit any occasion,such as red and green cherries for Christmas.
Poppy Seed Torte with Orange Glaze
This moist orange poppy seed cake is made up of four layers, filled and frosted with buttercream, and topped with an orange glaze. Beautiful and delicious!
Chocolate Cinnamon Hazelnut Meringue Cake
Crisp layers of hazelnut meringue, sandwiched with whipping cream, and decorated beautifully with strips of chocolate.
Hungarian Chestnut Cake
This rich dessert is full of all sorts of wickedness, and is a bit labor-intensive, but well worth the work. Chestnuts and marrons glace are available in specialty food stores and gourmet stores.
Ukrainian Prune Torte
Great-Grandma used prunes and prune fillings in many goodies of her own creation. Prune torte is one of them. The filling is even more delicious when made with an equal quantity of dates and prunes.
Schaum Torte
This is a simple recipe that tastes as wonderful and ethnic as the dessert you would get in a German restaurant. I prefer to use strawberries, but anything goes with this one! You can make smaller mounds to have meringue cookies …a low-fat snack!
Sybil’s Old Fashioned Lemon Layer Cake
This is one of my grandmother’s recipes, a Southern classic. It is similar to a doberge–six thin layers with a tart lemon filling. Tips: after separating the eggs, let the egg whites sit in the fridge until you’re ready to whip them. I usually need 3 large fresh lemons for this recipe to produce the zest and juice.
Bavarian-Style Apple Torte
This recipe is one of my family’s favorites. It’s similar to a cheesecake but much better. I get many requests for the recipe.
Streamline Hungarian Torte
This is a recipe handed down from my mother, it is a family favorite requested at all gatherings and pot lucks.
Peach Graham Upside Down Torte
This cake is different twist on the usual pineapple upside down cake. It is a wonderful cake served anytime, everyone will love it.
Sacher Torte
This is pretty darn close to the original classic dessert produced by the Sacher Hotel in Vienna, Austria. It is a dense, not-too-sweet, apricot and chocolate concoction. It is a lot of work but WELL worth the effort!
Doberge Cake
Based on the Hungarian Dobos torte (pronounced Do-bash), this cake was developed in New Orleans and is now a staple throughout Louisiana. It’s my husband’s all-time favorite and has become a birthday tradition.
Chocoberry Torte
The flavors of strawberries and chocolate mingle together in this lovely dessert. This is an easy to make sweet torte. You may increase the amount of fruit to your liking. Raspberries or blueberries are awesome additions to this delicious torte.
Sachertorte
This German cake recipe makes an icing with apricot preserves to deliver an elegant chocolate cake.
Sour Cream Torte
This torte is legendary at work; one time it caused a near riot and disappeared in 5 minutes! It’s very unusual and tastes like those small butter/nut cookies rolled in powdered sugar. It’s not hard to make, it just takes some time, but I guarantee it’s worth it!