Old Fashioned Italian Cream Cake Recipe
Do you want a dessert that brings back happy memories and tastes amazing? Let me tell you about the Old Fashioned Italian Cream Cake Recipe.
Ingredients
For The Cake Batter
- 1 stick Oleo
- 1 small can Coconut
- 2 cups Sugar
- 1 cup Crisco
- 2 cups Flour
- 5 Egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 5 Egg whites
- 1 cup Milk
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup Nuts (chopped)
For The Cream Cheese Frosting
- 8 ounce Cream cheese
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 1/2 cup Nuts (chopped)
- 1 box Confectioners sugar
- 1/2 stick Butter
- Milk
Instructions
- Prepare 3 cake pans (9") by greasing and flouring.
- Cream butter, Crisco, and sugar. Add egg yolks; beat.
- Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl.
- Add dry mixture to creamed one alternately with milk.
- Stir in vanilla, coconut, and nuts into the batter.
- Beat egg whites until stiff; fold into the batter.
- Pour batter into pans; bake at 300 degrees for 25 minutes.
- For Cream Cheese Frosting, mix ingredients (except nuts) with milk.
- Achieve spreading consistency.
- Frost the top and sides of the cake with the mixture.
- Sprinkle nuts on the top of the cake.