Shoo fly cake recipe

This shoofly pie is an old-fashioned, delicious pie that has a rich, deep molasses filling that is like a sticky toffee cake!

Amish shoofly cake is similar to shoofly pie. It is a deliciously moist molasses cake that can be served for breakfast or with any meal.

I have heard of Shoo Fly Pie before but never Shoo Fly Cake. That is until Tuesday morning when I made one to take to Hillcrest Thrift Shop for the downstairs volunteers. The cookbook from Amish and Mennonites Kitchens said it was best served warm. I made it and took it down to the shop a little before lunch time and placed it in the Community Room where the downstairs volunteers have lunch before they came in. I didn't work this week and so I knew they weren't expecting anything. I hope…

Pennsylvania Shoo Fly Cake has the same wonderful flavour of the pie ,but in cake form. You’re going to love it! Pennsylvania Shoo Fly Cake If you live in a state where Amish have settled and lived in, like my home state of Pennsylvania, most likely you know what Shoo Fly Pie is. The dark rich...

Make your own authentic PA Dutch Shoo Fly Pie with this recipe.

Among the Easter festivities I remember as a little girl, one was this Shoo-Fly Cake that my Grandma Laury always made for Easter morning breakfast. I’m not sure how she came to always bake u…

Many, many years ago (15 maybe?) Tom and I took a trip from Ontario to Nova Scotia, dipping down through the northern US on our way. One night we stayed at a bed and breakfast in southern Vermont that was owned by a couple who had Pennsylvania Dutch relations in their family. The lady of the house served shoofly pie at breakfast, and Tom immediately fell in love (with the pie...he was already in love with me. 😊) Neither one of us had even heard of it before so we had no idea that this…

This Shoo Fly Pie recipe is a flavorful molasses crumb cake layered with a gooey molasses bottom that's baked in a buttery pie crust.

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…

Sweet, molasses-flavored very tender cake. Definitely serve with whipped cream.