Bakery Style Shoofly Pie At Home.

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  • Total time: minutes

Enjoy Delicious REAL Bread without Worrying about Your Health, Your Blood Sugar... or Your Waistline!

INGREDIENTS:

SERVES 8
  • 115g/4oz/1 cup plain (all-purpose) flour
  • 115g/4oz/1 cup soft dark brown sugar
  • 1.5ml/¼ tsp each salt, ground ginger, cinnamon, mace and grated nutmeg
  • 75g/3oz/6 tablespoon cold butter, cut into pieces
  • 2 eggs
  • 120ml/4fl oz/½ cup molasses
  • 120ml/4fl oz/½ cup boiling water
  • 2.5ml/½ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
FOR THE PASTRY
  • 115g/4oz/½ cup cream cheese, at room temperature, cut into pieces
  • 115g/4oz/½ cup cold butter, at room temperature, cut into pieces
  • 115g/4oz/1 cup plain flour.

STEPS:

  1. For the pastry, put the cream cheese and butter in a mixing bowl. Sift over the flour.
  2. Cut in with a pastry blender until the dough just holds together. Wrap in clear film (plastic wrap) and chill for at least 30 minutes.
  3. Put a baking sheet in the centre of the oven and preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas 5.
  4. In a bowl, mix the flour, sugar, salt and spices. Rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside.
  5. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough and line a 23cm/9in pie tin (pan). Trim the overhanging pastry and flute the rim.
  6. Spoon a third of the crumbed mixture into the pastry case (pie shell).
  7. To complete the filling, whisk the eggs with the molasses in a large bowl until combined.
  8. Pour the boiling water into a small bowl. Stir in the bicarbonate of soda; the mixture will foam. Immediately whisk into the egg mixture. Pour carefully into the pastry case and sprinkle the remaining crumbed mixture evenly over the top.
  9. Stand on the hot baking sheet and bake until browned, about 35 minutes. Leave to cool to room temperature, then serve.