Old Fashioned Syrup Cake Recipes

OLD-FASHIONED MOLASSES CAKE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat butter and sugar until crumbly, about 2 minutes. Beat in egg. Beat in molasses. Combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with water, mixing well after each addition., Transfer to a 9-in. square baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into squares; garnish with whipped topping.

LOUISIANA SYRUP CAKE

Steps:

• Make the cake: preheat oven to 350°; grease and flour a 9-inch square or round cake pan.
• In a bowl, combine the flour, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and salt; stir with a fork to mix well.
• In a big bowl, combine the vegetable oil, cane syrup, and egg; stir with a fork or whisk to combine well.
• Add about 1/3 or the flour mixture to the syrup mixture and then stir gently, just until the flour disappears.
• Add the baking soda to the hot water, and then stir about half the water into the batter.
• Stir another 1/3 of the flour mixture, then the remaining water, and finally the remaining flour, stirring gently each time just to mix everything well.
• Quickly pour the batter into the prepared pan, and bake for 30-35 minutes, until the cake springs back when touched gently in the center, and is beginning to pull away from the sides of the pan.
• Make the frosting: In a bowl, beat the butter until light and fluffy; add in half the powdered sugar, the vanilla, and salt; beat with a mixer at medium speed until smooth.
• Add the remaining powdered sugar and the cane syrup, and beat until smooth and creamy, stopping to scrape down the bowl and mix well.
• To complete: if cake is round, cool the cake in the pan on a rack, for 10 minutes, turn it out of the pan, and place it, top side up, on a wire rack to cool completely; place cooled cake on a serving plate or cake stand, top side down, and spread the frosting over it generously, covering the top and sides.
• If it is square, spread the icing over the cooled cake right in the pan, and cut into squares to serve; serve warm, right from the pan.

OLD-FASHIONED SYRUP CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large bowl, mix sugar, syrup, oil, eggs, cinnamon, and nutmeg with a hand-mixer until combined.
• Add baking soda to boiling water and stir.
• Add boiling water mixture to batter. and stir well.
• Gradually add in flour and beat with hand-mixer until combined.
• Bake in 9 x 13 pan for 45 to 50 minutes.

OLD FASHIONED SYRUP CAKE

Steps:

• 1. GREASE AND LIGHTLY FLOUR A 9X9X2 INCH BAKING PAN. IN A BOWL STIR TOGETHER THE FLOUR,BAKING POWDER,AND SODA
• 2. IN A MIXING BOWL BEAT THE BUTTER WITH AN ELECTRIC MIXER ON MED. SPEED FOR 30.SECONDS.ADD THE SUGAR AND BEAT UNTIL FLUFFY, BEAT IN THE EGG AND CANE SYRUP.
• 3. ADD DRY INGREDIENTS AND MILK ALTERNATELY TO BEATEN MIXTURE, BEATING UNTIL COMBINED,SPREAD BATTER IN THR PREPARED PAN, BAKE IN A 350* OVEN ABOUT 25 MIN. OR TIL CAKE TESTS DONE. COOL IN THE PAN ON A WIRE RACK, SPRINKLE COOLED CAKE WITH POWDERED SUGAR OR FROSTING

TRADITIONAL SYRUP CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 F.
• In a mixing bowl, beat together oil, egg, and sugar.
• Add syrup, buttermilk, flour, soda, and salt.
• Mix together until well blended.
• Pour into greased iron skillet and bake for 40-45 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out mostly clean.

OLD FASHIONED TEA CAKES I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Grease a shallow (or, tea cake) pan.
• Cream butter; gradually add sugar and beat until fluffy. Add whole egg and egg yolk one at a time and beat until mixture is puffy light.
• Measure molasses into milk. Add vanilla. Sift dry ingredients. Add dry ingredients and liquid alternately to first mixture, mixing until smooth.
• Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. Frost with your favorite confectioner's icing. Cut into 1 x 2 inch slices.

OLD-FASHIONED CHOCOLATE CAKE - SOKOLATOPITA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180°C / 356°F.
• In a bowl stir together the flour and cocoa and set aside.
• In a mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until slightly foamy and thickened.
• Sift half the flour mixture into the eggs using a sifter.
• In a small bowl whisk together the milk, baking powder, baking soda, and brandy. Pour mixture into the cake batter and stir well. Then sift the remaining half flour mixture into the batter and stir well to combine. Pour in the melted butter and stir to combine.
• Grease a round 10-inch / 26 cm pan with some oil or butter.
• Add the cake batter in the pan and spread evenly with a spoon. Bake for 15 minutes or until when you prick the cake in the center with a knife, the knife comes out clean.
• While the cake is baking make the syrup. In a saucepan add the sugar and water and bring to a boil.
• Cook the syrup for 5-10 minutes until it thickens slightly. No need to stir while it boils.
• Remove from heat and whisk in the cocoa powder.
• Once the cake is baked, divide it into 8 or more pieces. Using a ladle, pour the hot syrup over the cake while it's still hot in the pan. If the syrup looks like a lot, no worries the cake will soak it all up as it cools down.
• Let cake reach room temperature and then refrigerate ideally overnight. DO NOT add this cake in the fridge while it's still hot. As the syrup will crystalize.