Mocha Layer Cake

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.