Gold Butter Cake
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1 pinch mace ground
- 1 1/2 cups cake flour sifted
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 large eggs well beaten
- 13 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 pound powdered sugar sifted
- 2 each egg whites unbeaten
- 1 tablespoon coffee strong
- CAKE: Cream butter until light and fluffy.
- Add sugar gradually, beating until light and fluffy.
- Add lemon and mace.
- Sift together dry ingredients, and add to creamed mixture alternately with eggs, beating well after each addition, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
- Turn into a greased and floured tube pan.
- Bake in preheated 350F (180C) F oven for 50 minutes.
- Cool for 5 minutes.
- Turn out on cake rack.
- Cool, and cover with Mocha Butter Frosting.
- FROSTING: Cream butter, salt, vanilla and cocoa until light and fluffy.
- Add sugar alternately with egg whites, beating well after each addition.
- Add coffee, and beat until spreading consistency.
butter, sugar, lemon extract, mace ground, cake flour, baking powder, salt, eggs, butter, salt, vanilla, cocoa powder, sugar, egg whites, coffee
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/gold-butter-cake-37903 (may not work)