1st Place Chocolate Glazed Shoo-Fly Cake
Belinda Myers
3247 Ridgeview Road
Dallastown, PA 17313
York County
4 cups flour ½ cup sugar ½ cup shortening
1 ½ cups brown sugar ½ cup butter 1-teaspoon cinnamon
In large mixer bowl blend flour, brown sugar, sugar, butter, shortening, and cinnamon till light crumbs form. Set aside 1 cup for later use.
½ cup Golden Barrel Supreme baking molasses
½ cup Golden Barrel Supreme table syrup
1-teaspoon vanilla
½ cup chocolate milk (Perrydell Dairy)
¼ cup chocolate syrup
1 ½ cup hot water
2-teaspoon instant coffee
2-teaspoon baking soda
In a large bowl beat together molasses, table syrup, vanilla, chocolate milk, and chocolate syrup till well blended. In a small bowl place hot water, coffee, and baking soda. Stir well. Add wet mixture to crumbs. Blend lightly. Grease and flour a 9X13 cake pan. Line bottom with wax paper. Pour cake mix into prepared pan. Sprinkle with ¾ cup of reserved crumbs. Place into a 350º oven for 50 to 55 min. or until done. Remove from oven and let set for 10 min, then flip out (turning right side up) onto serving plate.
Make Chocolate Glaze:
¾ cup sugar
1/3-cup semi sweet chocolate morsels
½ cup butter
2/3-cup evaporated milk
Place all into a small saucepan and cook over medium heat until it starts to boil. Cook until thick stirring occasionally, for 10 to 20 minutes. While warm, spoon over warm cake. Using a cake tester randomly poke holes to let chocolate go into cake. Sprinkle top with 2/3 cup of coarsely chopped pecans.
Decorate top with whipped cream, also sprinkle top with remaining ¼ cup reserved crumbs. If desired decorate with chocolate clay flies.
2nd Place Jim Bob’s Chocolate Molasses Cake
Jim Harper
5220 W Whitehall Road
PA Furnace, PA 16865
Centre County
2 cups sugar
1 ¾ cup flour
¾ cups cocoa
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
1-teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1-cup milk
½ cup Golden Barrel Supreme Baking Molasses
½ cup vegetable oil
2-teaspoon vanilla
1 cup boiling water
Frosting
½ cup butter (room temperature)
1-cup peanut butter
8 oz cream cheese
4 cups confectioners’ sugar
1-tablespoon milk
Beat first 3 ingredients until fluffy slowly add confectioners sugar. Add milk until spreading consistently.
Heat oven to 350ºf. Grease and flour a 9X13 baking pan. In bowl stir together dry ingredients. Add remaining ingredients except boiling water. Beat on medium speed of electric mixer for 2 minutes. By hand, stir in boiling water. Pour batter into pan. Batter will be thin. Bake 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean.
Cool 10 minutes and remove from pan. Allow to cool completely before frosting.
3rd Place Molasses Crumb Cake
Sara Kurtz
998 Little Lehigh Drive
Emmaus, PA 18049
Lehigh County
4 cups cake flour
1-pound brown sugar
1-cup butter or margarine
½ teaspoon vanilla
1 cup Golden Barrel Supreme Baking Molasses
2 cups boiling water
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 tablespoon orange rind
Mix flour, brown sugar and butter together to form crumbs. Reserve 1 ½ cups crumbs for top. Combine remaining ingredients with remaining crumbs and pour into 2 greased and floured 8” pans or one 15”X11” pan. Sprinkle tops of batter with reserved 1 ½ cups crumbs and bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes.
4th Place Shoo-Fly Bar Cake
Debra Ann Gruber
3935 East Grant Street
Box 136
Slatedale, PA 18079
Lehigh County
Crumb Mixture
Combine: 4 cups flour
2 cups sugar
½ lb butter
Mix until crumbly and reserve 1 cup
Cake
Combine: 2 cups boiling water and dissolve 1-tablespoon baking soda
Add: ¼ cup Golden Barrel Black Strap molasses
¼ cup light corn syrup
¼ cup table syrup
1-tablespoon vanilla
Add to crumb mixture, still reserving 1 cup of the crumbs. Preheat oven to 350º. Put into 9X13 pan that is ungreased, top with crumbs. Bake 45 minutes.
Topping Cook over medium heat
½ cup dark brown sugar
½ cup corn syrup
¼ cup table syrup
1-teaspoon vanilla
4-tablespoon cornstarch
1/8 cup Golden Barrel Black Strap Molasses
Cool and spread on cooled molasses cake. Top with additional ½ batch of crumbs and vanilla cool whip trim.
Vanilla Cool Whip Trim:
Cream: 1-cup 10X powdered sugar
1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese
1 tsp vanilla extract
Fold in: 1 (8oz) container vanilla cool whip
Garnish with pecans
5th Place Shoofly Cake
Michelle Masser
56 Lawn Ave
New Oxford, PA 17350
4 cups
1 1lb bag brown sugar
1-cup butter
2 cups boiling water
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup Golden Barrel molasses
Mix together flour brown sugar and butter until fine crumbs form. Set aside 1 and ½ cup of the crumbs for the top of the cake.
Mix together boiling water and baking soda add molasses. Add this mixture to the crumbs.
Pour in a greased pan and top with remaining crumbs. Bake in 350 degree oven for 45 minutes or until done.
Optional sprinkle cake with flaked coconut once out of oven.