Billie's Italian Cream Cake with Blueberries

Name: Billie's Italian Cream Cake with Blueberries
Prep time: 1 h 55 min
Cook time: 1 h 55 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Italian, European
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 2 pints or 3 small containers blueberries; 1 stick butter; 255 milliliters buttermilk (or 1 cup milk mixed with 1 teaspoon white vinegar); 454 grams packages cream cheese; 5 eggs, separated; 250 grams all-purpose flour; 200 grams granulated sugar; 109 grams chopped pecans; 907 grams powdered sugar; 85 grams sweetened flaked coconut; 1 Tbsp vanilla extract; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 218 milliliters vegetable oil

Billie's Italian Cream Cake with Blueberries is a lacto ovo vegetarian recipe with 12 servings. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This dessert has 830 calories, 8g of protein, and 35g of fat per serving. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 55 minutes. If you have coconut, butter, containers blueberries, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. This recipe is typical of Mediterranean cuisine.

Instructions

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For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans.

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All Purpose Flour

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Beat the egg whites until stiff. Set aside.

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Egg Whites

In a large bowl, cream together the butter, oil and granulated sugar until light and fluffy.

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Granulated Sugar

Butter

Cream

Cooking Oil

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Mix in the egg yolks, vanilla and coconut.

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Egg Yolk

Coconut

Vanilla

In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking soda and baking powder. Alternate adding the buttermilk and dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.

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Baking Soda

Buttermilk

All Purpose Flour

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Mix until just combined, and then fold in the egg whites.

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Egg Whites

Pour evenly into the prepared pans and bake until a toothpick comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.

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Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes. Then turn the cakes out onto cooling racks and allow to cool completely.

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For the frosting: In a medium bowl, combine the cream cheese, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar. Beat until light and fluffy. Stir in the pecans and coconut.

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Powdered Sugar

Cream Cheese

Frosting

Coconut

Vanilla

Butter

Pecans

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Cut each cake in half lengthwise so you are left with 4 layers.

Spread the first layer with frosting and top with blueberries. Repeat the cake, frosting and blueberry layers until you have 4 layers of cake. Arrange more blueberries around the edge of each layer for structure.

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Blueberries

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Servings:

1teaspoon

baking powder 1teaspoon

baking soda 2pints

or 3 small containers blueberries 1stick

butter 255milliliters

buttermilk (or 1 cup milk mixed with 1 teaspoon white vinegar)454grams

packages cream cheese 5

eggs, separated 250grams

all-purpose flour 200grams

granulated sugar 109grams

chopped pecans 907grams

powdered sugar 85grams

sweetened flaked coconut 1Tbsp

vanilla extract 2teaspoons

vanilla extract 218milliliters

vegetable oil

Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Port, Moscato Dasti

Cake works really well with Cream Sherry, Port, and Moscato d'Asti. A common wine pairing rule is to make sure your wine is sweeter than your food. Delicate desserts go well with Moscato d'Asti, nutty desserts with cream sherry, and caramel or chocolate desserts pair well with port. The Torres Sangre de Toro Cava with a 5 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 15 dollars per bottle.

Torres Sangre de Toro Cava

Pale yellow with fine and persistent perlage. Intense. Floral and fresh fruit aromas in perfect harmony with citrus and aniseed notes. Creamy bubbles, luscious and fresh.