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Share your Amish Cake Recipes here. Use chocolate cake mix, made according to package directions, or your favorite chocolate cake recipe (see below for one example). Bake in 2 round 8” or 9” cake pans. Slice cakes in half, making four layers. Frost the layers. Then shave some chocolate on top.
Molasses cake, coffee cakes, spice cake, sponge cake, even shoofly cake are among the two dozen traditional Pennsylvania German and Amish cake recipes you’ll find below. Share your Amish Cake Recipes here. Use chocolate cake mix, made according to package directions, or your favorite chocolate cake recipe (see below for one example).
Bake at 375 degrees, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. This cake can be served with pudding, or you can add powdered sugar icing to it. (adapted from Plain and Happy Living: Amish Recipes and Remedies by Emma Byler)
Dissolve the soda in hot water. Combine with the molasses. Pour into the pastry-lined pan. Add a layer of crumbs to the top. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit until cake becomes firm. (adapted from Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book of Fine Old Recipes) For the better-known pie version, see Shoofly Pie recipe.
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