Tomato Soup Cake

Southern cooks welcome unusual ingredients in their cakes, including fruit cocktail, cola, chocolate syrup, sauerkraut, baby food, mayonnaise, zucchini, and graham cracker crumbs. Condensed tomato soup appeared on grocery shelves in 1897, and recipes for tomato soup cake were common in cookbooks by the 1930s. I love this one as a layer cake, served with a simple vanilla frosting you can make while the cake is baking;Cream Cheese Frosting works, too.