Italian Cream Cake
Difficulty: EasyServings
9
servingsPrep time
20
minutesCooking time
30
minutesThis cake is so good my husband and I could not stop eating it last night! It’s light and fluffy. It has coconut and chopped pecans in it and the FROSTING is so delicious!
Ingredients
- Cake:
* 2 cup flour
* 1 tsp baking soda
* 1/2 tsp baking powder
* 16 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
* 2 cups granulated sugar
* 5 egg yolks
* 5 egg whites
* 1 cup buttermilk
* 1 tsp vanilla extract
* 3/4 cup chopped pecans
* 1/2 cup shredded sweetened coconut- Frosting:
* 16 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
* 8 oz. Cream cheese, softened
* 4- 4 1/2 cup powder sugar
* 2 tbsp heavy cream
* 1 tsp vanilla extract
* 1/2 tsp almond extract- Topping/Center:
* 1/3 cup chopped pecans
* 1/3 cup shredded sweetened coconut
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325° F. Line and grease two 9×9 baking dishes. Could use a 9×13 dish.
- Mix flour, baking soda and baking powder in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- Separate eggs putting yolks in one bowl and whites in another. Set aside.
- In a stand in mixer bowl fitted with paddle beat butter and sugar together till soft and fluffy. 2-3 minutes. Add in only egg yolks and continue to beat together till combine.
- Slowly add a little flour, alternating adding flour and milk till fully incorporated. Fold in pecans and coconuts.
- In a clean stand in mixer whisk together egg whites till white and fluffy peaks. About 3-5 minutes. Fold into cake batter till combine.
- Bake for 30 minutes if using the 9×9 dishes. 9×13 may take up to 40 minutes to bake. Take out of oven and let cool. Put cakes on cooling racks after 5 minutes.
- Make frosting till cakes are completely cool by beating together butter and cream cheese till smooth. Add in powder sugar, extracts and heavy cream and beat till smooth. Frost first layer of cake and sprinkle half the pecan/coconut in that layer. Put the other cake layer on top frost and sprinkle remaining pecans and coconut.
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