Shoo Fly Cake With Molasses Food

AMISH SHOOFLY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Mix brown sugar, flour, and butter with a pastry blender until you have fine crumbs.
• Reserve two cups of the crumbs for the top.
• Combine the boiling water and baking soda, then add the molasses and salt. Mix well.
• Mix the molasses mixture with the remaining crumbs. And pour this into a greased 9x13" baking dish.
• Starting at the edges, scatter the reserved 2 cups of crumbs over the top.
• Bake for about 45 - 50 minutes. Cool and enjoy.

SHOO-FLY CAKE

Steps:

• Mix all dry ingredients with margarine.
• Take 1 cup of mixture and reserve for topping and set aside.
• Dissolve baking soda in hot water.
• Add molasses, water and dissolved baking soda.
• Mix well.
• Pour into a greased 9x13 pan.
• Sprinkle with reserved topping mixture.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean.

SHOOFLY CRUMB CAKE

Steps:

• Mix the flour, sugars, salt and butter to crumbs using a pastry blender or your fingers.
• Reserve one cup of the crumbs for topping.
• Mix the molasses, boiling water, and baking soda and gradually add to the major part of the crumbs until well blended.
• Pour this mixture into a greased 9 x 13 inch baking pan.
• Sprinkle the reserved 1 cup of crumbs on top.
• Bake in a 350 F oven for 55 minutes.

SHOO-FLY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat over to 350 degrees.
• Grease and flour a 9X13 pan.
• Mix flour, sugar and butter together by rubbing between your fingers to make crumbs.
• Take one cup of crumb mixture and put aside to use for the topping.
• Add the baking soda to the molasses,stir.
• Pour molasses mixture into crumb mixture and then add the boiling water and stir with a large spoon.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Top with the 1 cup of crumbs you saved.
• Bake 30-40 or until a toothpick comes out clean.

AMISH SHOO FLY CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Add baking soda to boiling water; then add molasses and set mixture aside.
• Make a crumb mixture from flour, brown sugar and margarine, and reserve 1 cup of this aside.
• Mix together the remaining crumb mixture, liquid mixture and applesauce.
• Pour (batter is thin) into cupcake pan lined with cupcake papers, and sprinkle reserved crumb mixture on top of each cupcake.
• Bake at 350°F for 20 to 25 minutes.

SHOOFLY COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; set aside.
• In large bowl of electric mixer, combine butter, granulated sugar, eggs, vanilla and molasses.
• Beat at medium speed for about 2 minutes; add dry ingredients alternately with sour cream, beating until smooth.
• Mix brown sugar, walnuts and cinnamon.
• Spread 1/3 of batter in greased and lightly floured 10-inch tube pan.
• Sprinkle with 1/3 of the nut mixture. Repeat twice.
• Bake at 350° for 55 minutes or until pick inserted near center comes out clean.

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH SHOO-FLY CAKE

Steps:

• Mix together (like a crumbly pie crust) flour, shortening, sugars in a large bowl, reserving 1/2 cup of the crumbs for top of cake.
• In another bowl, mix: molasses, baking soda and hot water.
• Stir until mixed and some of the foam disappears.
• Add to the crumb mixture and stir until blended.
• Put in a 9 X 13 inch loaf pan that has been greased and floured.
• Put the 1/2 cup crumb mixture on top and bake for 1 hour at 350 deg.