Italian Cream Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. buttermilk
5 eggs
2 c. sugar
1 stick margarine
1/4 c. Crisco
2 c. flour
1 tsp. soda
1 c. Angel Flake coconut

Preparation

Separate eggs, 5 whites and 5 yolks.
First, beat egg whites in a small bowl.
Set aside.
In a LARGE bowl, cream sugar, margarine, and Crisco.
Add the egg yolks, one at a time.
Add flour and soda alternately with buttermilk.
Stir in coconut. Fold in the egg whites just until they are incorporated into the batter.
Pour into 3 well greased cake pans.
Use 2 ovens as the third layer doesn't bake evenly if baked with the other two.
Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes until done.
Cool before icing.