Italian Cream Cake

2 cups sugar

1 cube butter

1/2 cup Crisco

2 cups flour

5 eggs, separated

1 tsp. baking soda

1 cup buttermilk

2 cups coconut

1/2 cup nuts

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Cream together sugar, shortening and butter together. Add egg yolks. Add flour with soda, alternating with buttermilk. Add nuts and coconut. Beat egg whites and fold into batter. Pour into a greased 9x13 pan. Bake @ 375 for 35 minutes. Cool

Cream Cheese Frosting

1 pkg. (8 oz) cream cheese

1 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. milk

2 Tbs. butter

2 cups powdered sugar

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Mix cream cheese, vanilla, milk and butter until smooth. Mix in powdered sugar until smooth. Frost cake when cake becomes cool.


while making this I was listening to, Tempted by Squeeze, Above Ground by Norah Jones and Hey Ya by out Cast. I think the combination of music helped the cake turn out better.

IT'S A GIVEAWAY

As most of you that follow my blog know I love to cook. I have two blogs and am going to host a giveaway. I will be giving away to someone a cookbook filled with recipes collected over the years by family and friends and put together with much love. The book is copyrighted but the recipes can be shared.

Here are the rules~~~~~

1. You must become a follower of my blog, either Shig and Tin or Stomach to the Heart, when both or on blog reaches 25 followers, I will randomly choose a winner. if one or both blogs reach 50 followers I will include an extra prize into the package, and it will be well worth the win.

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Tin