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Italian Wedding Cake

An Italian Wedding Cake is the perfect match for your Italian themed wedding or if you want to pay tribute to your Italian heritage.

This cake is very popular and could be the perfect choice for your wedding. Should you wish to make it yourself, this is a great recipe found on Cake Central.

Italian Wedding Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup buttermilk
½ cup butter
½ cup Crisco
2 cups sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
5 eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ vanilla bean pod seeded. Or approx. teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup shaved coconut fermented with coconut rum

Cream Cheese frosting

8 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
½ cup sweet butter at room temperature
4 cups shifted confection sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoon cream. (use regular whipping cream if cream isn’t available)
1 cup coconut flakes
½ cup chopped walnuts.

Instructions:

Prepare 3 nine inch round pans with bakers secret spray. Add baking soda in buttermilk in a small bowl. 2. In another bowl, mix flour and baking powder.

Cream the softened butter, shortening and sugar until fluffy. (My kitchen Aid mixer is 4 minutes). Add eggs one at a time till just incorporated. Then add the vanilla.

Alternately, mix the buttermilk mixture with the flour mixture until it is incorporated. Stir in the coconut. Pour into the pans.

Bake 350 degrees in preheated oven for 30 minutes or when toothpick comes clean when inserted in middle. Set aside to cool on rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and set to cool additional time on rack.

For the Frosting: Mix cream cheese, butter and vanilla. Once incorporated, slowly add the shifted sugar until light and fluffy. Add the cream to make a smooth texture to spread. Stir in walnuts and coconut.

Now, if you are going to have your cake made for you, you can still have an Italian wedding cake!

You just have to decide if you would like to have it as a slab cake or Tiered Wedding Cake or something in between.

You also have to choose if you want to have it as an Elegant Wedding Cake or if you want to go casual/whimsical.

Even if you decide to go with a more elegant and traditional main wedding cake, you could always have a more fun and casual cake for your groom's cake or even at your bridal shower or engagement party.

Here are some of the cakes I found on a great site called Cake Central.

Just click on the image and it will take you to the submission page so you can get all the details on how it was created.

Italian Wedding Cake Examples:

This beautiful cake features tiers are white, Italian Cream, chocolate, and Italian Cream. Buttercream frosting. Fresh flowers as topper.

A beautiful square, fondant covered, wedding cake! Italian cream cake with cream cheese icing, covered in wedding white choco-pan, with fresh flower arrangements.

This is cream cheese icing on an Italian Cream cake... yum. I love the sugared grapes and mint leaves.

Three-tiered cake done for an Italian villa theme bridal shower, decorated with fruit and leaves.

A gorgeous cake 6, 10, and 14 inch italian cream with cream cheese icing and fresh flowers.

This is a great cake for a groom's cake or bridal shower. What could be more Italian?

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