CPS Thunder Cake recipe

Published 5:14 pm Tuesday, October 27, 2015

By Beaufort County Schools

CHOCOWINITY PRIMARY SCHOOL THUNDER CAKE: Lisa Ingalls, in costume as a Russian grandmother named Babushka, leads a group of students at Chocowinity Primary School in the preparation of an unusual, yet delicious Thunder Cake. The activity, a tradition in Lynn Whittington's third-grade classroom, was tied in with the students' reading unit, "Stories Worth Telling Again and Again." Would you like to bake your own Thunder Cake? Here's the recipe! Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together one at a time: 1 cup shortening, 1 3/4 cup sugar. 1 teaspoon vanilla and 3 eggs, separated. (Blend yolks in. Beat whites until they are stiff, then fold in.) Add 1 cup cold water and 1/3 cup pureed tomatoes. Sift together 2 1/2 cupcake flour, 1/2 cup dry cocoa, 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda and 1 teaspoon salt. Mix dry mixture into cream mixture. Bake in two greased and floured 8 1/2-inch pans at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes. Frost with chocolate butter frosting; top with strawberries.

CHOCOWINITY PRIMARY SCHOOL
THUNDER CAKE: Lisa Ingalls, in costume as a Russian grandmother named Babushka, leads a group of students at Chocowinity Primary School in the preparation of an unusual, yet delicious Thunder Cake. The activity, a tradition in Lynn Whittington’s third-grade classroom, was tied in with the students’ reading unit, “Stories Worth Telling Again and Again.”

Would you like to bake your own Thunder Cake? Here’s the recipe!

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together one at a time: 1 cup shortening, 1 3/4 cup sugar. 1 teaspoon vanilla and 3 eggs, separated. (Blend yolks in. Beat whites until they are stiff, then fold in.) Add 1 cup cold water and 1/3 cup pureed tomatoes. Sift together 2 1/2 cupcake flour, 1/2 cup dry cocoa, 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda and 1 teaspoon salt. Mix dry mixture into cream mixture. Bake in two greased and floured 8 1/2-inch pans at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes. Frost with chocolate butter frosting; top with strawberries.

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