Shoo Fly Cake Recipes

Steps:

• On a floured surface, roll dough to fit a 9-in. deep-dish pie plate. Trim and flute edge. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes., Meanwhile, preheat oven to 425°. For filling, mix brown sugar, molasses, egg, flour and baking soda. Gradually stir in boiling water; cool completely., Line unpricked crust with a double thickness of foil. Fill with pie weights, dried beans or uncooked rice. Bake on a lower oven rack 15 minutes. Remove foil and pie weights; brush crust with egg yolk. Bake 5 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Reduce oven setting to 350°., In another bowl, whisk together first four topping ingredients. Cut in butter until crumbly. Add filling to crust; sprinkle with topping. Cover edge of pie with foil., Bake until filling is set and golden brown, 45-50 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Store in the refrigerator.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Steps:

• 1. Mix first four ingredients with a pastry blender as you would pie dough. Remove 3/4 cup of crumbs and set aside for crumb topping.
• 2. Dissolve baking soda in 1/4 cup boiling water.
• 3. Mix leftover crumbs, molasses, soda mixture and remaining 2 cups of boiling water together.
• 4. Pour mixture into greased 10 x 13 x 2" pan.
• 5. Sprinkle reserved crumbs on top of mixture.
• 6. Bake @ 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes

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.