Tomato Soup Cake

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 can tomato soup
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
• 1/4 teaspoon allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon cloves
• 1 teaspoon ginger
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease and flour a 13 x 9-inch baking pan.
2. Cream butter and sugar.
3. Mix baking soda with tomato soup and add to creamed mixture, then mix.
4. Add salt and egg and continue beating.
5. Sift together flour, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, ginger and cinnamon and add to first mixture.
6. Add raisins and walnuts, if desired, and mix well. Pour batter into prepared baking pan.
7. Bake or 60 minutes. Cake is done when a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.