Vintage 1950s Dessert

Magic Tomato Soup Cake

Cake eaters’ delight! Tomato soup cake. You must taste it to believe anything could be so good!

Ingredients:

2 T butter or margarine
1 c sugar
2 c sifted cake flour
1 t each clove, cinnamon, nutmeg
1/4 t salt
1 can (10 oz) tomato soup
1 baking soda

Directions:

Cream butter, sugar well.  Sift flour; measure; resift 3 times with spices, salt. Alternately add dry ingredients with soup-soda mixture. Pour into greased loaf pan. (Size important; about 8-1/4 x 4-1/2 x 2-1/2). Bake (50 to 60 min 350 F oven). 

The Creamy Chocolate Frosting

1 (3 oz.) pkg cream cheese, 3T milk, 3 c sifted confec. sugar, 2 sq. bitter chocolate melted, 1/2t slat. 1 t vanilla. Mash cheese. Add mil grad,. beating till blended. Add sug. grad. beating till smooth. Add melted chocolate, slat, vanilla. Beat till smooth.