Decorated Italian Cream Cake

Next melt butter and set aside to cool.

Decorated italian cream cake. Cream together the cream cheese and butter until light fluffy and pale yellow in color. Egg whites at room temperature will whip better than cold egg whites and since you separate the eggs in this recipe and fold in the whipped egg whites for lightness this is important. Italian cream cake is a three layer masterpiece of light sponge cakes with pecans and luscious cream cheese frosting with toasted coconut and vanilla and almond flavors.

It s a four layer pecan and coconut cake covered with cream cheese frosting. Divide the batter evenly between the cake pans. 1 tsp vanilla essence.

I ve made several versions of this italian cream cake over the last several months. Vanilla buttercream is one of those frosting recipes that every baker should know so it deserves a post of its own. Italian creme cake has an amazing combination of pecans coconut and cream cheese.

Beat the cream cheese with softened butter add the icing sugar and vanilla. I ve toyed with my recipe a bit here and there. This cake recipe is one everyone should have.

To adapt the original 5 egg recipe i made 2 3 of it baked the batter in two small pans then split each layer to make a 4 layer italian cream cake. Bake for 30 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes back clean. Preheat the oven at 170 c 340 f.

Italian cream cake ingredients. Add the vanilla and almond extracts. Eggs at room temperature.