Shoofly Coffee Cake Food

SHOO-FLY COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease one 10" X 4" tube pan.
• Mix the brown sugar, nuts and cinnamon, set aside.
• Beat butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and molasses with an electric mixer for 2 minutes on medium.
• Combine flour, baking powder, soda and salt.
• Add the flour mixture and the sour cream alternately to the egg mixture until combined.
• Spread 1/3 of batter in pan.
• Sprinkle with 1/3 cinnamon-nut mixture, repeat twice.
• Bake 55-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

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.

COFFEE-MOLASSES SHOOFLY PIE

Steps:

• For crust:
• Blend flour, sugar, and salt in processor 5 seconds. Add shortening and butter. Using on/off turns, blend until coarse meal forms. Add 3 tablespoons ice water; blend briefly. Add more ice water, 1 teaspoon at a time, and blend, using on/off turns, until moist clumps form. Gather dough together; flatten into disk. Wrap in plastic and chill at least 1 hour and up to 1 day.
• Preheat oven to 400°F. Roll out dough on lightly floured surface to 13-inch round. Transfer dough to 9-inch-diameter glass pie dish. Trim overhang to 3/4 inch. Fold overhang under and crimp edge decoratively. Pierce crust all over with fork. Freeze 10 minutes. Line crust with foil; fill with dried beans or pie weights. Bake crust until sides are set, about 25 minutes. Remove foil and beans. Bake crust until beginning to color, pressing with back of fork if crust bubbles, about 10 minutes longer. Remove from oven; brush crust with some of egg white to seal. Reduce oven temperature to 350°F.
• Meanwhile, prepare filling:
• Mix flour and brown sugar in medium bowl. Add butter; cut in with back of fork until blended and even-size crumbs form. Combine 1 cup hot water and espresso powder in another medium bowl. Add baking soda. Whisk in corn syrup, molasses, vanilla, salt, and cinnamon.
• Sprinkle crumb mixture over hot crust. Pour in molasses mixture. Bake pie until filling is set in center, about 35 minutes. Transfer pie to rack; cool completely.
• Sift powdered sugar over pie. Cut into wedges and serve with ice cream.

OLD FASHIONED SHOOFLY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease and flour a 9-by-13-inch baking pan.
• Mix the flour, spices, salt and sugars, then cut in the shortening and butter with a pastry blender or similar tool until the mixture is the consistency of fine crumbs.
• Set aside 1 cup of the mixture.
• In another bowl, pour the boiling water over the molasses and stir until dissolved.
• Stir in the baking soda.
• When the bubbling subsides, add to the dry ingredients and stir until smoothly blended.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
• Give the pan a good thunk to settle contents, and drag a knife a few times through the center of the batter from the outside to the middle to help the cake rise evenly.
• Sprinkle with reserved cup of crumbs.
• Bake for about 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake 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.