posted by hilltop 04-12-99 5:30 PM
Italian Cream Cake
1 stick butter, soft
1 stick margerine
1 1/2 c sugar
2 tsp vanilla
5 eggs, separated
1 tsp soda
2 c flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 c coconut
1 c buttermilk
1/2 c fig jam or jelly
Frosting:
1 stick butter, soft
1 box powdered sugar
1 8 oz cream cheese, soft
1 tsp vanilla
1 c nuts
Cream butter, margarine and sugar. Add vanilla and egg yolks. Beat 5 min. Mix together dry ingredients and add, alternately with buttermilk.
Mix well, add coconut, then beat egg whites & fold in by hand.
Bake in lined pans at 350 degrees for 20 min. Cool.
Between each layer spread jam all the way to the edge, very thinly with an offset spatula.
Beat together frosting and add nuts if you like.
Spread frosting, then pipe the frosting on, chop pecans and sprinkle them in the center instead of adding them to the frosting.