Marble Molasses Cake Food

MOLASSES CAKE

Steps:

• Sift together salt, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, flour, and baking soda.
• Cream shortening and sugar gradually, then add molasses and eggs. Mix in sifted ingredients. Stir in hot coffee; batter will be thin.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 minutes. Cool.

OLD-FASHIONED MOLASSES CAKE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat butter and sugar until crumbly, about 2 minutes. Beat in egg. Beat in molasses. Combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with water, mixing well after each addition., Transfer to a 9-in. square baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into squares; garnish with whipped topping.

MOLASSES CRUMB CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Mix flour, sugar, and butter together in a large bowl until large crumbs form. Separate 2 cups of the flour mixture into another bowl and set aside.
• Stir boiling water, molasses, and baking soda together in a third bowl until baking soda dissolves; pour into the flour mixture in the large bowl and stir until smooth. Pour the batter into the prepared baking dish. Sprinkle the reserved flour mixture over the top of the batter.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

MARBLE MOLASSES CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease loaf pan.
• Cream butter in mixer.
• Add sugar gradually and beat until light and fluffy.
• Add beaten eggs and continue to cream.
• Mix flour, baking powder and salt in separate bowl.
• Add flour mixture alternately with milk to butter mixture.
• Remove 2/3 of batter from bowl.
• Add spices and molasses to remaining 1/3 of batter and beat well.
• Alternate light and dark batters in greased loaf pan.
• Bake for one hour.

LEMON MOLASSES MARBLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*F. Butter and flour a 9 to 10 inch bundt pan or tube pan and set aside.
• To make the molasses batter, cream together the butter and brown sugar until very light. Beat in the egg yolks one at a time; beat in the molasses. Sift the dry ingredients together and add the batter alternately with the yoghurt, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Do NOT over mix.
• To make the lemon batter, cream together the butter and the sugar and lemon zest until very light. Add the lemon extract. sift the dry ingredients together and add to the creamed mixture alternately with the yoghurt beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Do NOT overmix. Beat the egg whites with the salt until nearly stiff. Fold about 1/4 of them into the batter to lighten it, then gently fold in the remainder.
• Drop 3 or 4 large dollops of the lemon batter into the prepared cake pan. Top with 3 or 4 dollops of molasses batter. continue layering batters until all is used up. Gently rap the pan once against the countertop to settle the batters. With a butter knife, swirl the batters together a few times without over-doing it.
• Bake until the cake is golden brown and a toothpick inserted near the centre comes out clean, about 1 hour.
• Cool the cake in the pan on a wire rack for 10 to 15 minutes. Loosen the cake from the pan and unmold onto the rack to cool completely. Dust with icing sugar before serving. A lemon glaze is also nice on this.

MARBLE SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• One 12-cup Bundt pan, buttered and floured
• Set a rack at the middle level of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees. Butter a 12-cup Bundt pan and flour the buttered surface, shaking out the excess.
• Stir cake flour and baking powder together well to combine in a small bowl.
• In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter until soft and light. Use a hand mixer set at medium speed or a heavy-duty mixer fitter with the paddle, if you have one. Gradually beat in the sugar and salt and continue beating about 5 minutes until very light. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, continuing to beat until the mixture is smooth and fluffy.
• Sift half the cake flour mixture over the butter mixture, then stir it in. Stir in the milk thoroughly, scraping the side of the bowl, then sift over and stir in remaining cake flour mixture. Beat the batter for a few seconds to ensure that everything is thoroughly incorporated.
• Divide the batter in half and stir the molasses and spices thoroughly into one half.
• Spoon alternating tablespoons of the two batters into the prepared pan. Use the point of a table knife to run a zig-zag through the batters to marble them. Bake the cake for about 45 to 50 minutes, or until it is well risen and a skewer inserted in the center of the cake emerges clean. Cool in pan on rack for 5 minutes, then invert to a rack to cool.
• Hints:
• Butter Bundt pans with very, soft, not melted butter. Dust the buttered surface with flour or fine dry bread crumbs.
• Always use an insulated or doubled cookie sheet in the bottom level of the oven to prevent cookies from burning.

OMA'S GERMAN MARBLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 10 inch tube pan.
• In a large bowl, cream the butter with the sugar. Beat in egg yolks. Continue beating for 10 minutes.
• Gradually stir in flour, alternating with splashes of milk, until all of the flour and milk are mixed in. Stir in baking powder.
• In a separate bowl, beat egg whites. Fold egg whites into batter.
• Reserve 1/4 of the batter, and pour the rest into a greased, floured tube pan.
• Mix cocoa into the remaining 1/4 of the batter. Then turn into tube pan, and fold under with a fork to produce a marbled appearance.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 60 to 70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

MOLASSES CAKE

Steps:

• combine molasses, egg, and milk thoroughly.
• stir in flour dissolve soda in boiling water, add to batter bake in a greased& floured 8 inch square cake pan in a 375 oven for 30 to 45 minutes.

MOLASSES CAKE

Steps:

• Cream together brown sugar and butter.
• Add molasses and baking soda disolved in hot water.
• Add dry ingredients to mixture. Beat well.
• Put into greased, floured 9x9x2 inch pan,
• Bake at 350 F for 35 minutes.
• The following may also be added to this recipe- rasins, chopped nuts or candied fruit for fruit cake.

GRANDMA'S MOLASSES CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 and oil 8" cake pan.
• Combine all ingredients, except the hot water, mix well.
• Add hot water, batter will be thin.
• Blend well and pour into pan.
• Bkae 35 minutes.