Any Home Bakers Here?

[rjohns39]

Here you go:
ITALIAN CREAM CAKE

Cake
1/2 Cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 Cup shortening
2 Cups sugar
5 eggs (separate yolks from whites)
2 Cups AP flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 Cup buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/3 Cups flaked coconut
1 Cup chopped pecans (I used walnuts)

Frosting (see note below)
8 oz cream cheese, softened
1/2 Cup unsalted butter, softened
4 Cups confectioners' sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 Cup chopped pecans (I used walnuts)

1. Preheat oven to 350*. Grease and flour 3 8" round cake pans.
2. Beat egg whites until they form soft peaks.
3. In a large bowl, cream the butter and shortening oil until light. Add sugar, and beat until fluffy. Beat in egg yolks. Stir together flour & baking soda, and add alternately with the buttermilk into the creamed mixture; mix well after each addition. Stir in 1 tsp vanilla extract, coconut and pecans. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Spoon into prepared pans.
4. Bake for 25-40 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove to wire racks to Cool completely.
5. Frosting: Combine cream cheese, butter, confectioner's sugar and vanilla extract in mixer bowl. Beat oil smooth. Add coconut. Frost the cooled cake. The remaining 1/2 Cup chopped pecans can be stirred into the frosting or sprinkled onto the cake after it is frosted.

Note: The frosting ingredients as listed didn't make enough to cover a 3-layer cake. I made an additional 1/2 recipe of the frosting to have enough to cover the cake.

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(Sorry for the mess behind the cake, I'm working on dinner...Reuban Stomboli!)

Looks and sounds so yummy

 

[N F C]

Looks and sounds so yummy

LOL, as you can tell from the missing chunk, we think so too!

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

A sromboli? Reuben? I like the sounds of those 2 mixed together.
Another yum contest test?

 

[pennyJo1960]

did grilled cheese sandwichs, devilish eggs, tator tots, cottage cheese

 

[sfgwife]

I cooked a chicken for chicken pie for sunday dinner tomorrow. And made a banana cream pie. Mmmmmm. Tonight we did cheesy tater soup.

 

[N F C]

A sromboli? Reuben? I like the sounds of those 2 mixed together.
Another yum contest test?

No yum contest entry (it's not Italian)...just something I thought we would like so gave the recipe a go. It was very good! I'll post a picture and recipe in a bit.

 

[chickmom3941]

I made this cake the other day for the Yum Contest but I can't use it for that as I didn't take enough photos. So here it is, a 3-layer Italian Cream Cake:
(Sorry for the super close-up, )
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That is a delicious looking cake!

 

[N F C]

That is a delicious looking cake!

Thank you!

Chickmom, are you going to enter the Yum Contest?

 

[chickmom3941]

Thank you!

Chickmom, are you going to enter the Yum Contest?

Is the yum contest the Italian food contest? If, not, what is the yum contest? In regards to the Italian food contest, I wasn't sure about the requirements - is a whole meal required, or just one Italian food item?

 

[sunflour]

Is the yum contest the Italian food contest? If, not, what is the yum contest? In regards to the Italian food contest, I wasn't sure about the requirements - is a whole meal required, or just one Italian food item?

I sorta asked that question and the response indicated a meal...I could have interpreted it incorrectly though