Best Italian Cream Cake Recipe With Cream Cheese Frosting

This is by far the best Italian Cream Cake recipe with yummy cream cheese frosting. I once tried the Southern Living Magazine easy recipe that uses a cake mix and it was a disaster.

This recipe is the tastiest, hands down. We have this cake on special occasions.

Was your long weekend filled with fun and laughter. Ours was. We celebrated 3 birthdays and visited with out of town guests. It’s always nice to see family.

Best Italian Cream Cake Recipe

Around our house Italian Cream Cake is the number one cake of choice when birthdays come around. Any of you had Italian Cream Cake before? It’s good! The cream cheese frosting is finger linkin’ or mixing bowl scraping good.

I’m sharing the recipe with you so you or your favorite baker can give it a try. I know that’s not my usual thing here on the blog….cooking and recipes…….I don’t want to get too predictable though.

The cake is a pain in the rear to make but worth all the pain. I once tried a shortcut I found in Southern Living Magazine and it was a bust. Of course my daughter never lets me live that one down. I tried the shortcut recipe on her birthday instead of her dad’s birthday or her brother’s birthday.

Well, it was near her birthday when I found the shortcut recipe. That’s why she was the guinea pig. Anyway I make this Italian cream cake recipe  2-3 times a year……using the pain-in-the-rear-to-make good recipe.

You guys probably wonder why there isn’t a photo of the cake before it was cut. Two reasons….1. I forgot to take a photo…..2. It’s a 3 layer cake and mine always looks like the Leaning Tower of Pisa when I’m finished with it.

I did mention I only bake a cake a few times a year didn’t I? I’m not a pastry chef or baker or whatever. Don’t matter what it looks like though….it taste yummy!

Italian Cream Cake Recipe

Beat until stiff 5 egg whites.
Cream together:
2 cups sugar
1 stick butter softened
½ cup Crisco Shortening (stick or from the can- not the liquid kind)
Add:
5 egg yolks
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups self-rising flour- sifted
By hand add:
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup Angel Flake Coconut
1 cup finely chopped pecans
Fold in beaten egg whites. Pour batter into three 9” cake pans. Grease and flour the pans to prevent cake from sticking. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes. Cool cake before icing.
Cream Cheese Frosting
1 box confectioners powdered sugar
1 stick butter softened
1 8 ounce cream cheese softened
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup coarse chopped pecans
Recipe source Chapel Academy Cookbook (date 1970’s) Reba Stuckey
Petticoatjunktion.com

I’m not going to add a fancy recipe plug-in to my site. This is the first time in my 4 year blog life that I’ve shared a recipe (not counting the candy corn/peanut “recipe”), and I can’t see sharing a lot in the future.

Maybe a special recipe around the holidays. You guys don’t have to write anything down. You can download the recipe in PDF  and then print it if you want.

Download- Italian Cream Cake Family Favorite Recipe

My lovely daughter-in-law, Miss Sofi, and the JTS all had birthdays within a week of each other. We celebrated big time.

The JTS’s brother, Tony (on the left) and his wife, came to visit for the weekend. I tried to get these two guys to cooperate for the photo but they’re worse than a couple of kids. This is the best I got!

We sure enjoyed visiting. There was a lot of talking, a lot of playing, and a lot of eating.

I also shared my Dad’s favorite Banana Cake recipe. The cake doesn’t contain chocolate so it never was a favorite of mine…..until recently. I’ve been spending a lot of time with Mom and Dad in Arkansas dealing with Mom and Alzheimer’s.

I started making the cake for Dad because it’s his favorite. I make the cake at least once a month because that’s how often I’m in Arkansas. The cake has become one of my favorites and it’s so easy to make. It has the best icing. Not too sweet, just right. And it’s easy to make too. You can find the Banana Cake recipe here.

Find the Millionaire Pie recipe here.

You will love our favorite appetizer! The recipe is here….Cheesy Sausage Wontons.

I started painting a piece of furniture yesterday after our company headed back to Arkansas. I hope to get it finished so I can share it tomorrow or Thursday.

Sorry but this giveaway has ended. Find the ……HomeRight Paint Sprayer for Large and small projects here

Have a great day ya’ll, Kathy