Gold Butter Cake

Yields:	1 cake
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	Preparation	20 minutes
	Cooking	50 minutes
	Ready In	90 minutes

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Ingredients

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

Mocha butter frosting
1/3	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

Directions

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 350 degree 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.