fixing the recipe so all on one message, hold on while I fix it for us
1 - stick Margarine
1/2 Crisco
2 C. Sugar
1 t. Vanilla
5 - egg yokes (save whites for later.)
Dry Ingredients
2 c. Flour
1 t. soda
1 t. salt
Wet Ingredients
1 c. buttermilk
1/2 c Marchino cherry juice
Cream the first set of ingredients and then add dry and wet alternately
Then add 2 c. sweetened coconut grated
Then beat egg whites and fold into cake mixture.
Pour into prepared cake pans. I use 2 large spring form pans. Bake 350 Degrees for 40 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean.
I frost with standard Cream Cheese frosting and roast pecans in skillet and top each layer with pecans as I ice.
This has always been a killer cake recipe for special times.