Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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2 cups Cake flour -- sifted
3 tablespoons Cocoa
2-1/4 teaspoons Salt
1/2 cup Butter -- or shortening
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg -- well beaten
3/4 cup Coffee -- strong
1 teaspoon Vanilla
-----FILLING & TOPPING-----
2 tablespoons Conf. sugar
1 cup Cream -- whipped
1/2 cup Dates -- finely cut-or raisin
1/2 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" layer pans in moderate oven, 375°, 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.
