Instructions: Sift flour once, measure, add cocoa, baking powder and salt and sift togeth er three times. Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream tog ether 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 m inutes. Cool. Add confectioners sugar to whipped cream, mixing until blend ed. Fold dates and nut meats into whipped cream. Spread between layers of cake. Sift confectioners sugar over top of cake.

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