Shoofly Cake Recipe From The Essential Amish Cookbook

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.

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.

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.