Italian Cream Cake
This is one of our favorite cakes. I hope you will try it if it’s new to you. If not maybe it will remind you to make one soon!
Ingredients
For the Cake:
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 5 egg yolks
- 2 cups all purpose flour or 2 cups plus 2 TBSP cake flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 2 cups coconut
- 5 egg whites, beaten stiff
- 1 cup buttermilk
Frosting:
- 8 ounces cream cheese at room temp
- 1/2 cup butter at room temp
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 pound confectioners sugar
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour 3 (9 inch) or 4 (8 inch) round cake pans.
Cake:
Cream sugar, butter and shortening. Add egg yolks and mix well. Mix flour, salt, baking soda in a bowl. Add this flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Mix well. Add vanilla, pecans and coconut. Mix well. Then gently fold in egg whites. Divide evenly between your pans. Bake for 25-35 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes then turn out on a rack to finish cooling. Frost when completely cool.
Frosting:
Beat cream cheese and butter until light. Add vanilla and mix well. Add confectioners sugar a cup at the time and when all in incorporated beat on high until light and spreading consistency.