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Italian Cream Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 Cups Sugar
1 ½ Cups Crisco
1 Cup Butter, divided
5 Eggs (separated)
2 Cups All-Purpose Flour
½ Teaspoon Salt
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Cup Buttermilk
2 Teaspoon Vanilla, divided
2 Cups Coconut
1 Cup Chopped Nuts
1- 8 oz Cream Cheese, softened
1 lb.Confectioner's Sugar

Directions:
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream sugar and crisco untit smooth. Next, add 1/2 cup butter and beat well. Separate eggs and beat one egg yolk at a time into the sugar/crisco mixture. Set egg whites aside.

Sift flour, salt and baking soda (dry ingredients) together. Next, combine the buttermilk and 1 teaspoon of vanilla together.

Add dry ingredients and buttermilk mixture to the creamed mixture, alternating between the two. Add coconut and nuts. Mix well with a spoon. Beat 5 egg whites stiff and fold into other mixture.

Grease and flour 3- 9 inch round cake pans. Pour batter evenly into cake pans. Bake 30 to 35 minutes and remove from pans and cool completely before frosting.

Frosting:
Mix the cream cheese, 1/2 cup butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and confectioner's sugar until smooth. Spread over the baked cakes.

Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
90 minutes

 

 

 

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