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Italian Cream Cake

CKatCook

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I am looking for a tried and true very good Italian Cream Cake. It's for Christmas dinner and I swear, I have combed through my MANY cookbooks and I cannot find a recipe to save my life! I don't want to pull one off the web. The last few cakes I did that to it came up a mess, even with following the recipe exactly.  Heck, at this point I would buy a good cookbook and have it overnighted to me if I knew a good Italian cream cake recipe was in it. HELP!

 

Blessings, 

Kat

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ElsieD

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I have a recipe for Italian  Dream Cream Cake.  It has a cream cheese based frosting (along with some other stuff),  the cake itself has coconut in it.  Toasted coconut can be  sprinkled over the top and chopped toasted pecans pressed into the sides,  it is a triple layer cake.  If this resembles what you are looking for, send me a PM.

JoNorvelleWalker

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5 hours ago, CKatCook said:

I am looking for a tried and true very good Italian Cream Cake. It's for Christmas dinner and I swear, I have combed through my MANY cookbooks and I cannot find a recipe to save my life! I don't want to pull one off the web. The last few cakes I did that to it came up a mess, even with following the recipe exactly.  Heck, at this point I would buy a good cookbook and have it overnighted to me if I knew a good Italian cream cake recipe was in it. HELP!

 

Blessings, 

Kat

 

Forgive my ignorance but did you mean Italian cheese cake or Italian cream cake?  If cheese cake, I recommend the recipe from Time Life Foods of the World Italy.  A Roman era recipe made from eggs and ricotta.

 

 

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CKatCook

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7 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

Forgive my ignorance but did you mean Italian cheese cake or Italian cream cake?  If cheese cake, I recommend the recipe from Time Life Foods of the World Italy.  A Roman era recipe made from eggs and ricotta.

 

 

I meant Italian Cream Cake. Not cheese cake. It's a cake that has pecans, coconut..a frosting that is a buttercream with pecans in it.  

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"I eat fat back, because bacon is too lean"

-overheard from a 105 year old man

"The only time to eat diet food is while waiting for the steak to cook" - Julia Child

RWood

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40 minutes ago, Maison Rustique said:

@RWood, I just peeked at your website. Your cakes are gorgeous! 

 

Sorry for the interruption!

Thank you!

CKatCook

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On 12/13/2022 at 8:17 PM, RWood said:

I really like this one

Italian Cream Cake

Thank you so very kindly!! You saved my Holiday table!! 

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"The only time to eat diet food is while waiting for the steak to cook" - Julia Child

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Smithy

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On 12/18/2022 at 5:44 AM, CKatCook said:

Thank you so very kindly!! You saved my Holiday table!! 

 

@CKatCook, did you have time / energy to take a photo of your result? No worries if you didn't (I wouldn't have either) but it would be fun to see.

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