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.
