Title: Chocolate chip date nut cake
 Categories: Chocolate, Cakes, Microwave
      Yield: 8 Servings
 
    1/4 c  Boiling water
    1/2 c  Chopped dates
    1/2 c  Sugar
    1/3 c  Butter or margarine,
           -at room temperature
      1    Egg
      1 c  Flour, sifted
    1/4 ts Salt
    1/2 ts Baking powder
      2 ts Unsweetened cocoa
    1/4 c  Sugar
    3/4 c  Semi-sweet chocolate bits
    1/4 c  Nuts
 
  1. In a small bowl pour 1/4 cup boiling water over chopped dates. Let
  cool. 2. Lightly grease an 8-inch square, heat-resistant,
  non-metallic baking pan. Set aside. 3. Cream 1/2 cup sugar and 1/3
  cup butter until light and fluffy. 4. Add egg to creamed sugar
  mixture. Blend well. 5. Sift together flour, salt, baking powder and
  powdered cocoa. 6. Add date and flour mixture alternately to creamed
  butter and sugar mixture. 7. Pour batter into prepared pan. Smooth
  top of batter with spatula. 8. In small bowl combine 1/4 cup sugar,
  semi-sweet chocolate bits and nuts. Sprinkle topping mixture on top
  of batter and Press topping into batter, lightly. 9. Heat. covered
  with clear plastic wrap in Microwave Oven 7 minutes or until a
  toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Let cool in
  cake pan
       10    minutes