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, 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.

Corp.

If you would like to email yourself the recipe for later use, or share the recipe with your friends or family, enter the email addresses below and this recipe will be emailed to you and others as well.