Mocha Layer Cake

* Exported from MasterCook *

Mocha Layer Cake

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Layer Cakes

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
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.



- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -