Italian Wedding Cake Recipe

Ingredients

Cake:

1 tsp. baking soda

1 c. buttermilk

1/2 c. butter

1/2 c. shortening

2 c. sugar

5 eggs, separated

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 c. flour

1 c. angel-flake coconut

1 c. chopped walnuts

Cooking Directions

Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk and set aside. Cream butter and shortening; add sugar and beat until creamed. Add egg yolks and mix thoroughly. Stir in vanilla. Alternately add flour and buttermilk-baking soda mixture to butter mixture. Stir in coconut and chopped walnuts.

Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into cake batter. Turn batter into three greased and floured 9-inch cake pans or one 13x9x2-inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until done. Cool on wire racks.

For Cream Cheese Icing:

1/2 c. butter

1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese

1 (1 lb.) box confectioners sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

Chopped walnuts for garnish

Icing Procedure:

Cream butter and cream cheese together until well blended. Add confectioners sugar and vanilla; mix until thoroughly creamed. Frost cake and sprinkle top with chopped walnuts.