Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, italian cream cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Italian cream cake is NOT supposed to be this dense. This was like a dry, greasy brownie. The origin of Italian cream cake doesn't really seem to be known.
Italian Cream Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Italian Cream Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook italian cream cake using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Italian Cream Cake:
- Get 1/2 cup butter flavored shortening
- Prepare 1 stick (1/2 cup) salted butter
- Take 2 cups (400 g) granulated sugar
- Make ready 5 eggs, separated and at room temperature
- Get 2 cups (240 g) all purpose flour
- Make ready 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- Get 1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
- Prepare 2 cups sweetened, shredded coconut
- Get 1 cup finely chopped pecans
- Get 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Take 16 oz cream cheese, at room temperature
- Make ready 1 stick (1/2 cup) salted butter
- Get 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Get 32 oz powdered sugar
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans (for frosting)
I think everyone in my family has my grandma Barb's highly requested Italian Cream cake recipe (and now so do you. This classic Italian cream cake is actually a recipe from down South. Italian Cream Cake Family Favorite Recipe For Special Occasions. Italian Cream Cake Recipe with Buttercream Frosting is full of coconut and pecans and smothered in buttercream frosting.
Instructions to make Italian Cream Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and grease, flour and line the bottom of 3 (9-inch) pans with parchment paper.
- In a bowl of an electric mixer cream the shortening, butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the egg yolks 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Sift flour, baking soda and salt together onto a sheet of waxed or parchment paper. With the mixer on low speed, add the sifted ingredients in batches alternately with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.
- In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff, and gently fold into the prepared batter. Add the coconut, pecans and vanilla and fold into the batter.
- Divide the batter among 3 prepared cake pans and bake for about 25 - 30 minutes, or until golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the middle of each cake.
- While the cake is baking, prepare the frosting. In a large bowl combine the cream cheese, butter and vanilla and beat until smooth and creamy. Add the sugar and mix until throughly combined. Add the nuts and fold together. Keep refrigerated until you are ready to frost the cake, then bring back to room temperature.
- Allow cakes to cool in the pans for about 10 minutes before turning them out onto a wire rack to finish cooling.
- When the cakes are completely cool, stack the layers with the frosting and frost sides and top. Decorate with whole pecans around top edge of cake.
- For a smaller version of the cake, use two (8-inch) pans and the following ingredient amounts: 1/3 cup butter flavored shortening, 1/3 cup salted butter, 240g granulated sugar, 3 eggs, 144g all purpose flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 2/3 cup buttermilk, 1 1/4 cup shredded coconut, 2/3 cup chopped pecans, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 8oz cream cheese, 1/4 cup salted butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 16 oz powdered sugar, 3/4 cup chopped pecans. Baking time may vary.
This Italian Cream Cake is a tender buttermilk and coconut cake, topped with a cream cheese icing, pecans, and more coconut. This layered Italian Cream Cake is the perfect dessert for a birthday or dinner party because it is moist and full of flavor from the chopped pecans and cream cheese frosting. Italian Cream Cake has three layers of moist cake covered in cream cheese frosting with plenty of coconut and pecans. It's not hard at all to make and is perfect for a holiday celebration. Italian cream cake is sure to be a show stopper for any special occasion.
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