Shoofly Pie - An American Classic

This is a spot on shoofly pie - so what is a Shoofly pie you ask ? Shoofly pie began as a crust-less molasses cake called Centennial cake in 1876, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia The name comes from a particular brand of molasses, Shoofly Molasses

. The dry-bottom version is baked until fully set and results in a more cake-like consistency throughout. The wet-bottom version is set like cake at the top where it was mixed in with the crumbs, but the very bottom is a stickier, gooier custard-like consistency

As a kid my family would vacation in Lancaster PA with a large amish community and they would sell wet bottom shoofly pie at road side stands, I love that pie !!!! for this pie the Molasses and , butterscotch cream pie create the main note . The molasses is a brown sugar/ maple syrup and needs a a little body to support it so the butterscotch cream pie by WF, along with the condensed milk to create that wet bottom of the pie. . The recipe actually has a stick of butter for the crumble top hence the butter base by VT combined with some of LB bakers touch to add a cinnamon for the crumble like texture. The sugar cookie and cookie are my go generic butter pie crust. and will also help with the crumble top . This is an over the top sweet pie so it needed a touch a supersweet

This brought back some great memories for me - This is pretty much spot on and needs bout 2 - 3 days to really begin to come out and 5 days to get the deeper molasses notes

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