Old Pecan Streets Italian Cream Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup margarine
• 2 cups sugar
• 5 egg yolks
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 cup walnuts
• 3/4 cup coconut
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 5 egg whites
• 1/3 cup butter
• 12 ounces cream cheese
• 5 cups powdered sugar, sifted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 grease and flour 2 nine-inch round pans.
• 2 in a large mixing bowl, cream margarine with sugar.
• 3 add the egg yolks one at a time, beating after each addition.
• 4 sift together flour and soda.
• 5 alternate adding the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture with buttermilk.
• 6 add the walnuts, coconut, and vanilla.
• 7 beat the egg whites until stiff and fold them into the batter.
• 8 pour the batter into the cake pans and bake for 45 minutes in a 350-degree oven.
• 9 remove from oven and allow to cool.
• 10 while cake is cooling, make the cream cheese icing.
• 11 cream butter with cream cheese.
• 12 add powdered sugar; mix well.
• 13 add vanilla and beat until smooth.
• 14 place one cake layer on a cake plate, and ice the top.
• 15 cover with the second cake layer.
• 16 ice the sides and top of the cake.