Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Mystery Cake ( aka Tomato Soup Cake)

This is a very old recipe. It was often called Mystery cake because people turned their noses up when they found out it had Tomato soup in it. But it actually is a delicious moist spice type of cake. 



2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/3 cups sugar

4 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/2 teaspoon ground all spice

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

1 can Campbells condensed Tomato Soup

1/2 cup shortening

1/4 cup water

( optional: 1 cup raisins and or 1 cup walnuts to batter)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 8 inch round cake pans.

In a large bowl combine all ingredients. With a mixer at low speed, beat until well mixed. ( constantly scraping bowl with rubber spatula) At high speed beat for 4 minutes, occasionally scraping bowl. Pour into prepared pans.

Bake 35-40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire rack at least 10 minutes. 

Frost with vanilla cream cheese frosting.


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