Mocha Cake Recipe      Very Old Recipe  100 years old

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup Butter
1 cup Sugar
3 eggs, separate the yolks from the whites
2 Cups Flour
2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla

 In large bowl, cream butter and sugar well. Add the 3 beaten egg yolks. Mix well..Now add the 3 stiffly beaten egg whites, sifted flour, baking powder, milk and vanilla and mix together well with wooden spoon.  Bake in a greased and floured cake pan (rectangle )
When cooled, cut the cake pieces into narrow oblong pieces and cover all the sides with the below icing.

For the Mocha Icing Recipe:

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
2 cups Confectioners Sugar
1 tablespoon milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Chopped Almonds (optional)

Mix all the above ingredients, except the almonds.
After spreading the icing on all the sides of the cake pieces, roll
the cake pieces into the chopped almonds.

Why they call this Mocha Cake is a puzzle to me, but that
is the name The Magic Cook Book gave it way back in the early 1900's.