Posted by: Mona M 11-06-99 10:50 AM pt (US)
Dark Secret
from Edna Sadorus Haines
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup nuts (pecans or English walnuts)
1 tsp baking powder
bananas
canned pineapple
grapes
1 cup dates
2 Tbsp flour
Maraschino cherries
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Beat eggs and sugar. Cut up dates and nuts. Sprinkle 1 Tbl flour over them.
Add rest of flour and baking powder to eggs and sugar; fold in dates and nuts.
Pour into shallow baking pan and bake in a moderate oven until done.
This will raise and then fall when it is done.
Let cool, then break into small pieces; arrange in a small mound on serving plate.
Cover cake pieces with fruit, sliced bananas, pineapple chunks (or tidbits) and seeded,
halved grapes.
Cover all of this with whipped topping; decorate with maraschino cherries. Serves 6-8
Submitted by JEVarnell - Champaign County Researcher