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      Title: Italian Cream Cake
 Categories: Cakes, Jaw
      Yield: 1 Cake
 
    1/2 c  Butter, at room temp
    1/2 c  Shortening
      2 c  Sugar
      5    Eggs, separated
      2 c  Sifted cake flour
      1 t  Baking soda
      1 c  Buttermilk
      1 t  Vanilla
  3 1/2 oz Can grated coconut
      1 c  Chopped pecans

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    1/4 c  Butter at room temp
      8 oz Package cream cheese, at
           Room temp
      1 lb Sifted powdered sugar
      1 t  Vanilla
    1/2 c  Chopped pecans
    1/2 c  Grated coconut
 
  Cream butter and shortening. Add sugar, beating until smooth. Add egg
  yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine flour
  and soda. Add alternately with buttermilk. Stir in vanilla; add
  coconut and pecans. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake in 3
  greased and floured 9 inch cake pans at 350 degrees for 20 to 25
  minutes. Cool and frost with Cream Cheese Frosting..
  
  Cream Cheese Frosting: Cream butter and cream cheese. Add sugar,
  mixing well. Add vanilla. Frost cake. Sprinkle with pecans and
  coconut.
 
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