Italian Cream Cake

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Mon Mar 3rd 1169 Views
Ingredients:
  • 1 stick margarine
  • ½ cup Crisco
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 5 eggs, separated
  • 1 cup self-rising flour
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 cup coconut
  • 1 cup chopped pecans
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 cup plain flour
  • 1 tsp. soda
Frosting
  • 1 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese
  • ½ stick margarine
  • 1 box confectioners sugar, sifted
  • 1 8 oz. carton extra-creamy Cool Whip
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Instructions:

Cream margarine, Crisco and sugar. Add egg yolks one at a time, beating after each. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour. Stir in nuts and coconut. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into batter. Add vanilla. Bake in three 9-inch cake pans at 350 degrees for about 18 minutes. Cool and frost.

Frosting: Mix all ingredients and spread on cake. Decorate with pecan halves.

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