This is an old-fashioned spice cake from the 1950s. I was a little hesitant, the first time I tried this cake as a child knowing there were tomatoes in it! I can attest that the taste does not ...

in the 1950s, my mother always made tomato-soup cake for ... with a plain, cream-cheese icing, but if you want to “get fancy” (as mom would say), make some chocolate ganache frosting.