Old Fashioned Shoo Fly Cake


My mother in law asked for shoo fly cake for her birthday.  Thankfully, I had her old recipe in the recipe drawer.  :-)  For the cake shown above, the first batch of crumbs sunk into the mix, so I mixed up another small batch of crumbs and added them to the top when the cake was about half baked.  It made the BEST cake - with layers of crumbs baked down in  almost like a poke cake.

I don't like shoo fly pie - but I love this cake.  Do not over bake - better to under bake ever so slightly than to over bake this.


Shoo Fly Cake Recipe

Preheat Oven to 325

Crumbs:
4 c flour
2 c sugar
1 c butter
1 t salt
Beat, until the mixture forms crumbs.  Reserve 1 cup.

Add whats left of the crumbs with:
1tsp  ginger
1tsp  cloves
2tsp  cinnamon

Add 1 tsp baking soda into 2 cups warm water.  Then add 1 cup light brer rabbit molasses to the water.

Add the water mixture to the crumb mixture. Beat until smooth.
Pour into a greased 9x13 pan

Sprinkle the reserved cup of crumbs on top of the batter

Bake at 325 for one hour.

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