Coffee Angel Food Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup(s) Butter
• COFFEE BUTTER ICING
• 3 cup(s) Confectioners' sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoon(s) Cream of tarter
• 1 1/2 cup(s) Egg whites
• 1 cup(s) Granulated sugar
• 3-4 tablespoon(s) Milk
• 2 tablespoon(s) Powdered instant coffee
• 1 tablespoon(s) Powdered instant coffee
• 1/4 teaspoon(s) Salt
• 1/4 teaspoon(s) Salt
• 1 1/4 cup(s) Sifted confectioners' sugar
• 1 cup(s) Sifted flour
• 1/2 teaspoon(s) Vanilla

Preparation

1. Sift flour with confectioners sugar 3 times. Beat egg whites with cream of tarter, salt, vanilla, and coffee till stiff enough to hold up in soft peaks, but still moist and glossy. Beat in granulated sugar, 2 T. at a time; continue to beat until the meringue holds a stiff peak.


2. Sift about 1/4 fo flour mixture over whites; fold in lightly with a down-up-and-over motion, turning the bowl. Fold the remaining flour by fourths.


3. Bake in ungreased 10 in. tube pan in moderate oven (375)
4. for about 30 minutes.


5. Invert pan and let hang several hours. Bake in the morning and frost in the late afternoon or bake at night and frost the next day.


6. Frosting


7. Cream butter, salt, and sugar, a small amount at a time, beating all the while. Dissolve coffee in milk and add to butter-sugar mixture slowly( as needed) Beat for approximately 5 minutes until whipped and fluffy.