Easy Fruit Torte

Looking for an easy, delicious dessert to carry to your next picnic?  This fruit torte is your answer!  It is very easy to make and it will definitely leave you with a happy crowd.

Start with a basic yellow cake recipe.  Here is the general recipe I use:

Basic Yellow Cake
Cream together: 2/3 cup butter (softened), 1- 3/4 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1- 1/2 tsp vanilla.
Sift together: 2- 1/2 cup AP flour, 2-1/2 tsp BP, 1/2 tsp salt
You also need 1-1/4 cup milk

Over about 3 batches, slowly add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture.  After each dry bit added, add some of the milk.  Once everything is mixed together, pour batter evenly into 2 sprayed torte pans.  Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes.  I turned mine 10 minutes in to make sure they cook evenly.

Once tortes are finished, remove from pans and set aside to cool.  While they are doing that, you can prep the cheesecake topping.  You aren't going to believe how easy this is.  Mix 2 cups of cold milk, 1 box of sugar-free cheesecake pudding and 8 oz of cream cheese (softened).  Blend it together until it isn't lumpy and it begins to thicken the way pudding should.

Once the cakes are fully cooled, spread the topping and add whatever fruit looked good at the market that day.  I used strawberries and blueberries to be patriotic for the holiday but this would be great with kiwi, pineapple, raspberries, or really anything.

I refrigerated until it was time to serve.  Try this and you will get rave reviews! Feel free to share any comments!

Happy Memorial Day and thank you to all veterans!