CPS A Story Worth Telling

Published 8:11 pm Tuesday, October 7, 2014

By Beaufort County Schools

CHOCOWINITY PRIMARY SCHOOL | CONTRIBUTED A STORY WORTH TELLING: Elise Rawls, in costume as a Russian grandmother named Babushka, leads a class of third grade students at Chocowinity Primary School in the preparation of an unusual, yet delicious, Thunder Cake. The activity was tied in with the students' reading unit, "Stories Worth Telling Again and Again."

CHOCOWINITY PRIMARY SCHOOL | CONTRIBUTED
A STORY WORTH TELLING: Elise Rawls, in costume as a Russian grandmother named Babushka, leads a class of third grade students at Chocowinity Primary School in the preparation of an unusual, yet delicious, Thunder Cake. The activity 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!

 

THUNDER CAKE

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 one-cup cold water and 1/3 cup pureed tomatoes. Sift together 2 1/2 cups cake 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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