Recipe - Fruited Mocha Layer Cake

2 cup Cake flour; sifted
3 tablespoon Cocoa
2 One fourth teaspoon Salt
One half cup Butter; or shortening
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg; well beaten
Three fourths cup Coffee; strong
1 teaspoon Vanilla

FILLING & TOPPING
2 tablespoon Conf. sugar
1 cup Cream; whipped
One half cup Dates; finely cutor raisins
One half cup Nut meats; broken

Sift flour once, measure, add cocoa, baking powder and salt and sift
together three times. Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and
cream together until light and fluffy; then beat in egg. Add flour,
alternately with coffee, a small amount at a time, beating after each
addition until smooth. Add vanilla. Bake in two greased 9 inch layer pans
in moderate oven, 375 deg. F., 30 minutes. Cool. Add confectioners' sugar
to whipped cream, mixing until blended. Fold dates and nut meats into
whipped cream. Spread between layers of cake. Sift confectioners' sugar
over top of cake. Kate Smith Collection 1940 Published by General Foods
Corp.

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