Fruited Mocha Layer Cake

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Title: Fruited Mocha Layer Cake
Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
Yield: 1 servings

2 c Cake flour; sifted
3 tb Cocoa
2 1/4 ts Salt
1/2 c Butter or shortening
1 c Sugar
1 Egg; well beaten
3/4 c Coffee; strong
1 ts Vanilla
Filling and topping:
2 tb Confectioner's sugar
1 c Whipped cream
1/2 c Dates or finely cut raisins
1/2 c 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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