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.
