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Directions: Cream sugar and lard in bowl, add soup with soda dissolved in it; soft flour, and add spices and raisins. Mix thoroughly and bake for one hour. Cake eaters’ delight! Tomato soup cake. You must taste it to believe anything could be so good! Preheat oven to 350 F. Cream butter & sugar well.
This retro recipe first appeared in community cookbooks in the 1920s. It didn’t take Campbell’s Soup long to see that the cake was popular, so they began promoting the recipe in ads for tomato soup. This tomato soup cake continued to grow in popularity over the decades and saw its peak around the 1950s. I decided to give this retro recipe a try!
Tomato soup is a recipe from the Depression era. Tomato soup was an ingredient to replace milk and butter in the original recipe. Over time the recipe has changed and this one is closer to the Campbell’s tomato soup recipe. How do you make tomato soup cake? This cake bakes in a 9×13 cake pan.
This tomato soup muffin recipe is a delicious and moist spice cake, that can be topped with powdered sugar or cream cheese frosting. You can make it as a cake or muffins, like I did! Yes I know. The thought of putting tomato soup in a cake, let alone muffins is causing icky faces everywhere. Just like what happened when I made my Mayonnaise Cake!
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