Italian Cream Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 stick butter
1/2 c. Crisco
2 c. sugar
5 egg yolks, save whites
2 c. flour
1 tsp. soda
1 c. buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. coconut
1 c. chopped nuts

Preparation

Cream butter and Crisco.
Add sugar and beat until mixture is smooth.
Add yolks and beat well.
Combine flour and soda; add to the creamed mixture alternately with milk.
Stir in vanilla and add coconut and chopped nuts.
Fold in egg whites.
Pour into 3 (9-inch) cake pans and bake at 350\u00b0 for 25 minutes.