1 stick butter
1/2 c. vegetable shortening
2 c. sugar
5 eggs, separated
1 sm. can coconut
1 c. chopped nuts
2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. vanilla
Pinch of salt

Mix sugar and butter. Beat. Add yolk of eggs; mix well. Add vegetable shortening. Sift flour, soda and salt. Add to first ingredients. Then coconut and nuts and vanilla. Add beaten white of eggs to batter. Bake in 3 cake pans at 325 degrees for 25 minutes.

ICING:

1 (8 oz.) cream cheese
1 stick butter
1 box confectioners' sugar
Nuts as desired

Cream cheese and butter. Add sugar and nuts. Spread on cake.