Turtle Layer Cake - Baking At Home

Ingredients

• 1 ¾ C. sugar
• 3 C. all-purpose flour
• ¾ C. cocoa powder
• 1 Tbsp. Clabber Girl® Baking Powder
• 1 tsp. Clabber Girl® Baking Soda
• 1 tsp. salt
• 3 eggs
• 1 C. whole milk
• 1 C. strong coffee, cooled
• ¾ C. Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil
• 1 tsp. Spice Islands® Pure Vanilla Extract
• 1 C. butter, softened
• 3 Tbsp. milk or cream
• 1 C. Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening
• ½ C. cocoa powder
• 2 Tbsp. Dutch process dark cocoa powder
• 4 ½ C. powdered sugar
• 1 C. sugar
• 6 Tbsp. cold butter, diced
• ⅓ C. heavy cream
• ½ tsp. salt
• 1 C. chopped pecans, for the filling