Old Fashioned Shoofly Cake Recipes

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.

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 CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine flour, brown sugar and salt. Cut in butter until crumbly. Set aside 1 cup for topping. Add baking soda to remaining crumb mixture. Stir in water and molasses. , Fill 24 paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Sprinkle with reserved crumb mixture. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 20-25 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool.

TRADITIONAL SHOOFLY PIE

Steps:

• Place pie crusts in 9 inch pie pans. Chill the crusts approximately 1 hour before use.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, stir together the baking soda and warm water. Mix in the molasses and stir until foamy. Transfer the mixture to the pie crusts.
• In a medium bowl, mix together flour, sugar and baking soda. Use a pastry blender to cut the butter into the flour mixture until very fine crumbs have formed. Sprinkle the crumbs over the molasses mixture in the pie crusts.
• Bake in the preheated oven 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C), and continue baking 35 minutes, or until crust is lightly browned and the filling has set.

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH SHOOFLY PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
• Mix flour, brown sugar and shortening into crumbs with fingers, fork or pastry blender. Reserve 1/2 cup of crumbs for the top of the pie. To remaining crumbs, blend in the molasses, egg, and 3/4 cup hot water. Mix the baking soda with remaining 1/4 cup hot water and promptly add to mixture. Pour into unbaked pie shell and bake for 15 minutes. Top the pie with the reserved crumbs and reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F. and bake for an additional 40 minutes.
• The pie can be served at room temperature or chilled.
• In a large bowl, mix together flour and salt. Cut in shortening until well incorporated. Add remaining ingredients and mix until well blended. Let rest a few minutes, then divide dough into 4 portions. Roll a dough disc out on a lightly floured surface and press into a 9-inch pie plate. Individually tightly cover and freeze remaining 3 portions of dough.

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 PIE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 450 degrees.
• Make the crumb topping: Mix flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt together in a bowl. Cut in the butter with a pastry cutter until the consistency resembles cornmeal.
• Combine molasses, water and baking soda and pour into pastry shell. Spoon the crumb mixture evenly over the top. Bake 15 minutes, lower the heat to 350 degrees and bake 20 minutes longer, or until set and firm.