Nope you haven’t read that wrong. In my effort to use every single scrap of the home grown tomatoes, I wrestled this gem of a recipe out of my tomato guy’s hands. Intriguing right? Green tomatoes in a cake, how weird? Hopefully how weirdly wonderful would be the result.
Green Tomato Cake (from Gabriel)
(this recipe will make a 9 x 13 sheet cake or you can half it for an 8 inch round)
4 cups chopped green tomatoes
1 tbsp salt
1/2 cup butter (room temp)
2 c sugar
2 eggs
2 c ap flour
1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1 tsp baking soda, 1/4 tsp salt.
1/2 c currants, 1/2 c walnuts or pecans chopped
Sprinkle 1 tsp salt over the chopped tomatoes, stir and let stand for at least 10 mins and up to 30 mins. Place in colander, rinse with cold water and drain.
Peheat oven 350F. Grease and flour your baking pan. 9 x 13.
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat again until creamy. Sift together the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, soda and 1/4 tsp salt. Add currants and nuts. Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture. Mix well (will be quite firm). Add the drained tomatoes and mix again. Scrape in baking pan.
Bake for 40-45 mins.
Frost with your favorite cream cheese frosting or drizzle brown butter icing over the top.
Brown Butter Icing (From Cooks.com)
3 tbsp. butter
1 tbsp. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
NOTE: (if you have extra green tomatoes you can chop them and slightly saute them until soft and most of the water is release. Freeze them when cool and make the cake at a later date, with the tomatoes defrosted. The cake will be just as delicious but you will not see the fresh chunks of green that you with a fresh green cake.
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I Love the idea of this – how did it taste? Was it really moist, I imagine it would have been.
it was really moist and trust me sooooo delicious!! i cannot wait to make it again.
Man this is a delicious one!!!
Now I have seen everything!
Ist they gave us Carrot Cake, then they gave us Chocolate Courgette Cake, Now Green Tomatoe Cake! What’s the world coming to….
Green tomato cake…. I might not ever be daring enough to try this, but it sounds and looks very interesting!
I hate to say it, but BLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAARG!!!!!
Trust me this is a keeper!
hmmmm….interesting…I can’t say green tomato cake sounds good…but who knows… 🙂
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This really doesn’t sound good, but it must be if you say so. I have plenty of green tomatoes left in my garden to give this a try. Thanks!
I absolutely love new ideas like this one! It sounds just scrumptious. Congrats on your creativity and on being Freshly Pressed!
Cheers,
What did it taste like?
Crystal
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Thanks for sharing! I have a bounty of green tomatoes too, guess what I’m making this weekend?
I have to try this – it sounds so unusual.
oh my…so it was really good? I really want to try to make this now, especially with the brown butter frosting. i imagine it was amazing
There are some green tomatoes in the garden that I can use for this. Certainly sounds interesting. Congrats on being freshly pressed.
This is another weird one, but does sound delicious.
I have some ‘weird’ recipes on a ‘blog’ on hubpages and might like to add yours. Can tell me yes or no? Thanks either way.
I think the green tomatoes might be good added to a carrot cake!
frogyfish
Yes absolutely weird ideas and recipes count me in.
Great idea!
I love fried green tomatoes!
Huh! This reminds me of tomato tarte tatins since they’re also sweet! Very intriguing. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Sounds interesting…In fact I had carrot cake for lunch 🙂 I love to cook so I’ll be checkin back in with you and reading some of your recipes that look O SO Delicious! >>>
Great idea!
Beautiful pics and post! Congrats on being Pressed!
What a unique recipe you got there. How does it taste? I am thinking it would be something like zucchini bread, when my mom first baked this it sounded weird but it taste great, it looks like this will be too!
Raymund
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very moist and delicious a zucchini bread, more bread like not too sweet.
Delicious!
Great minds think alike… I made green tomato muffins today. They’ll show up on my blog tomorrow.
Interesting way to get all of us to eat more veggies !! Nice post! Thanks for the recipe.
Green tomatoes and cake!?! I could be daring enough to try this…
Very daring and creative!!!! How did it taste?
tasted amazing, moist not too sweet… like a banana loafy type thing.
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