Shoofly Coffee Cake Recipes

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.

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.

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.

COFFEE SHOOFLY PIE

Steps:

• preheat oven to 350.
• in a large bowl mix flour and sugar.
• cut in butter until blended and crumbly.
• mix expresso with hot water in a medium bowl.
• add in baking soda, corn syrup, vanilla, salt, cinnamon.
• pour crumb mixture into crust.
• pour in liquid mixture, bake 35 minutes until set in center.
• cool on wire rack.
• sprinkle with powdered sugar.

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.