Shoo Fly Cake Recipe
This recipe for an easy moist molasses cake is very popular in Eastern Pennsylvania. It has the taste of shoo-fly pie – a Pennsylvania Dutch favorite -- without a crust. Good for dessert or as a breakfast cake. 1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 4 cups flour 1 cup molasses 2 cups cold water 1 teaspoon baking soda Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 13” x 9” x 2” baking pan Cream the butter. Add sugar, beat well. Add flour and combine thoroughly. Take one cup of this crumb mixture and set aside for topping. In a separate bowl, mix molasses with water. Add baking soda. Add molasses mixture to dry mixture until dissolved. Pour into prepared pan. Sprinkle with reserved crumb mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 55 to 60 minutes. Marie |
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| This is my favorite cake!! I'm not a big fan of the wet-bottom shoo-fly pie, but this gives the same flavor in a dry cake version. It's the BEST!
Susan, how did you know about it being a favorite in Eastern PA? |
So sorry!!  I said "Susan" instead of "Marie." Didn't read slowly enough and was thinking SheepieBoss, not SheepieMum! Apologies, Marie!! |
I missed this when it was first posted. It sounds very yummy. I like shoo fly pie, too, but this sounds better!! Gotta buy some molasses.  |
| Phew! I thought, "OK, my maternal grandmother was from Penn, but I've never had shoofly pie, only fly graveyard pie." And I've been in Penn once in my life, when I was 12 and remember little.
That's OK, sheepieboss, sheepiemom.......easy to get mixed up, LOL! |
| Fly graveyard pie is not familiar to me -- but funeral pie is -- that is another name for raisin pie.
Marie |
| That sounds delicious, I've never heard of it, but now I want to try it.... LOL |
| same thing, raisin or currant pie |
| A real Pennsylvania Dutch cook, Cora from near Lebanon, PA, substituted Mrs. Butterworth's Syrup for molasses. |
Oh my! syrup for molasses?! Blasphemy!  
(It wouldn't be shoo fly anymore. )
I cannot count how many of these pies I have made. But along the shoo fly line, soggy bottom shoo fly pie is much much better IMO. We are talkin my neck of the woods now. Shellie |
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