Fruited Mocha Layer Cake

Recipe Ingredients

2 cups	125g / 4.4oz	Cake flour - sifted
3 tablespoons	45ml	Cocoa
2 1/4 teaspoons	11ml	Salt
1/2 cup	99g / 3.5oz	Butter - or shortening
1 cup	198g / 7oz	Sugar
1		Egg - well beaten
3/4 cup	177ml	Coffee - strong
1 teaspoon	5ml	Vanilla
		Filling and Topping
2 tablespoons	30ml	Conf. Sugar
1 cup	237ml	Cream - whipped
1/2 cup	80g / 2.8oz	Dates - finely cut-or raisin
1/2 cup	31g / 1.1oz	Nut meats - broken

Recipe Instructions

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, 375F for 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.

Source:
Kate Smith Collection 1940 Published by General Foods Corp.

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