Fruited mocha layer cake :::gwhp32a

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 cups Cake flour; sifted
3 tablespoons Cocoa
2¼ teaspoon Salt
½ cup Butter; or shortening
1 cup Sugar
1 each Egg; well beaten
¾ cup Coffee; strong
1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 tablespoons Conf. sugar
1 cup Cream; whipped
½ cup Dates; finely cut-or raisins
½ cup Nut meats; broken

Directions

FILLING & TOPPING

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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