Shoofly cake

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...

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Shoofly Cake and Pie are about PA Dutch as you can get. The cake is easy to make and nice because it's also eggless. As to the name and where it came from, how did these pies/cakes get their name? The most logical explanation seems to be that the sweet ingredients attracted flies when the pies were cooling. The cooks had to "shoo" the flies away, hence the name shoofly pie. Another story claims that this is really a French recipe, and that the crumb topping of the pie resembled the surface…

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…

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…

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…

ShooFly Cake! This is an "old" favourite recipe that comes from a friend in Pennsylvania. She and her husband and two very young children lived upstairs in our duplex in 1975. We were only married for a couple of years then and I was not very experienced at baking. This recipe was easy to follow and it turned out every time. It smells heavenly as it bakes! I haven't made it for many years but am so glad to have rediscovered this delicious moist cake. I'm not so fond of Shoofly Pie but this…

Shoofly Cupcakes. A sweet, moist molasses PA Dutch / Amish / Lancaster favorite made into fun little cakes. Vegan friendly | www.craftycookingmama.com

I share the Shoofly Cake Recipe from The Essential Amish Cookbook as well as my thoughts on the book. It's a delicious cake with the flavors of shoofly pie

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