Italian Cream Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. buttermilk
1 tsp. baking soda
5 eggs, separated
1 stick margarine
1/2 c. shortening
2 c. sugar
2 c. flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. chopped pecans
1 small can coconut
Italian Cream Frosting

Preparation

In a
small
bowl,
add buttermilk and soda; let stand. Beat egg whites until stiff.
Cream margarine, shortening and sugar; add
egg
yolks,
one at a time, to sugar mixture.
Add flour
and buttermilk
alternately.
Toast pecans and coconut and add
to flour
mixture
along
with vanilla.
Fold in egg whites.
Bake at 325\u00b0 for 25 minutes in 3 (8-inch) greased and floured cake
pans. Turn
out of pans and cool on wire racks. Frost with Italian Cream Frosting.