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Italian Cream Cake

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Ingredients:

  1. 1 cups - buttermilk
  2. 1 teaspoons - baking soda
  3. 5 - eggs separated
  4. 2 cups - sugar
  5. 1 sticks - butter or margarine
  6. 1/2 cups - shortening
  7. 2 cups - flour
  8. 1 teaspoons - vanilla
  9. 1 cups - finely chopped pecans
  10. 2 cups - coconut
  11. 8 ounces - cream cheese softened
  12. 1 sticks - butter
  13. 1 teaspoons - vanilla
  14. 4 cups - powdered sugar
  15. - coconut for toasting, for topping

Directions:

Combine baking soda and buttermilk and set aside.

Separate egg yolks from egg whites; beat egg whites in a large glass bowl until stiff and set aside.

Mix together sugar, butter, and shortening until fluffy. Add egg yolks one at a time, beating well after each one.

Add buttermilk (with baking soda) alternately with flour to the mixture; stir in vanilla.

Fold beaten egg whites into the batter; gently stir in the pecans and coconut.

Pour into three (greased and floured) round cake pans (8 or 9-inch pans). Bake at 325 F for 25-30 minutes or until lightly browned.
Let cool in pan on a cooling rack for 30 minutes before removing from pans. Allow to cool completely on cooling rack before frosting.

Frosting:
Mix cream cheese and butter with vanilla until smooth. Add powdered sugar 1 cup at a time until all is blended well. Refrigerate until ready to frost cake. Frost middles, top, and sides of cake.

In frying pan, toast coconut in a little butter (or toast coconut in oven on baking tray at 425 degrees F for about 5 minutes). Sprinkle toasted coconut on top of cake.

Alternatively, sprinkle more chopped pecans on top of cake, instead of the toasted coconut.

Store cake in fridge until ready to serve.


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