Italian Cream Cake
Containing coconut and pecans, the Italian Cream Cake is a vanilla cake topped with either a whipped cream frosting or a cream cheese frosting.
The origin is not known but it is thought that the Italian Cream Cake is more Southern and not of roots from Italy. More research is needed as we are finding conflicting information on the history of the Italian Cream Cake.
The first mentioned is in Texas in 1937 and it is assumed an Italian baker made it and it was named based on where the baker was from originally. The earliest origin is from Alberta, Canada in 1913.
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Italian Cream Cake Recipe
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Italian Cream Cake
Ingredients
Italian Cream Cake Batter
- 1 stick oleo
- 1 small can coconut
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup Crisco
- 2 cups flour
- 5 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 5 egg whites
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup nuts, chopped
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 8 ounce cream cheese
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts
- 1 box confectioners sugar
- 1/2 stick butter
- Milk
Instructions
- Grease and flour 3 9" cake pans
- Cream butter (oleo), Crisco, sugar, add egg yolks and beat well
- Combine flour, baking soda, and salt
- Add to creamed mixture alternately with milk
- Stir in vanilla, coconut, and nuts
- Beat eggs whites until stiff and fold into batter
- Turn batter into pans and bake for 25 minutes at 300 degrees
- Cream Cheese Frosting
- Mix all ingredients except nuts with enough milk for spreading consistency
- Frost top of each layer and sides of cake
- Sprinkle nuts on top of cake
Tisha S.
Thursday 14th of April 2022
Thanks for sharing. I want to try this recipe. My mother used to make Italian cream cake when I was growing up. She passed almost 30 years ago and we don't have the recipe anymore but this looks promising.
Simone
Saturday 7th of December 2019
A finalist in this year's StarTribune Cookie Contest, said her entry was based on an old "Italian Cream Cake" recipe that called for "oleo." http://www.startribune.com/best-holiday-cookies/564807802/?recipe=85 This is how I came upon your site and recipe. Thank you for your efforts in saving old recipes.
DNP - Billie
Sunday 8th of December 2019
Thank you for sharing this!!!