Last Friday at lunch, Rob appears with this cake and his two accomplices, Mike and Dave. Not only did they want me to try the cake, they wanted me to guess what the mystery ingredient was. Now, first of all, I don't even like cake. Second, Rob baked the cake, and third, all three of them wanted me to guess a mystery ingredient. Clearly this was not safe cake to eat. Upon viewing the baked creation, I was even more convinced that tasting this cake was a bad, bad idea.

After carefully sniffing, poking and examining the cake, I concluded no weird bugs had been ground up in the icing. Time for the next step. How could I lead everyone at work if I was clearly afraid of cake? I had to taste it. So, down the hatch it went. No foaming at the mouth. No side cramps. All was good. In fact, the cake tasted.....well....kind of.........yummy. It was yummy cake. In fact, it tasted almost like carrot cake, with cream cheese icing. Despite the fact that it was pink, poorly blended and lop sided, Rob had baked a good cake (in his defense, I found out he doesn't have a mixer). The trouble was, I still could not guess the mystery ingredient.

So, what was the mystery ingredient? Well, it was in fact, ketchup. I was eating a ketchup cake (as I breathed a sigh of relief). Try it out for yourself at your next party, just remember, don't tell everyone until after they have tasted it! You can find the recipe here.