Italian Cream Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 stick margarine, softened
1/2 c. shortening
2 c. all-purpose flour
2 c. sugar
5 eggs
1 tsp. baking soda
1 c. buttermilk
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1 1/3 c. coconut
1 c. chopped pecans

Preparation

Cream margarine and shortening; add sugar and beat well.
Add eggs, one at a time.
Mix soda in buttermilk and add alternately with flour to sugar mixture.
Stir in vanilla, coconut and pecans. Pour in 3 greased and floured 9-inch cake pans and bake for 40 minutes at 350\u00b0.