My daughter came home from her last day of school before summer break. She asked me to bake a thunder cake to mark the beginning of a fun filled summer break.
She said "I can help you with the recipe mommy, I got the recipe from school. There you go"
and this is what she gave me.
She confirmed with me if I had all the ingredients at home.
Now the measurements were up to me.. haha... Isn't the cute ?
I quietly googled the recipe of the thunder cake. I did not tell her that I was doing so, of course.
I kept her under an impression that I was strictly following her recipe.
Well, then I came across the thunder cake recipe by Patricia Polacco
Here's the link:
http://www.patriciapolacco.com/participation/kidstalk/questions_week/week_3/cake_recipe.html
I followed this recipe with a few modifications.
Ingredients :
- All Purpose Flour - 2 1/2 cups
- Cocoa Powder - 1/2 cup
- Baking Soda - 1 1/2 tsp
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Pureed Tomatoes - 1/3 cup
- Milk - 1 cup ( the original recipe says 1 cup of water but I added milk because my daughters recipe called for milk )
- Eggs - 3
- Sugar - 2 cups
- Butter - 1 stick (cup)
- Vanilla - 1 tsp ( I did not add it because I did not have it. It still tasted good)
Directions:
- Pre heat oven to 350 deg F.
- Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Keep aside.
- In a mixing bowl beat the eggs, add melted butter, sugar, vanilla and blend together.
- Add milk and pureed tomatoes and blend well.
- To this mixture add the dry mixture which we kept aside.
- Take a cake pan, grease and flour it.
- Pour this cake mix into the pan and bake for about 40 minutes.
- You can frost it and add slices fruits of your choice ( strawberries according to my daughter's list ). But I skipped the frosting part. It was too good as is.
My daughter was happy that her recipe was a success.... ;) hushh !!
Thank you Patricia !!!
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