Posted in /Cooking/Desserts/Cake on Sunday, April 02, 2017
Yield: three 8 inch square pans of 16 pieces.
Ingredients
3 cups water
450 ml Molasses
2 tsp baking soda
1 cup room temperature unsalted butter
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
4 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
2 tsp ginger
1 Tbsp cinnamon
2 pinches ground cloves
2 Tbsp baking powder
Directions
- Bring water to a boil, remove from the heat and stir in the molasses and baking soda. Let cool until lukewarm
- Cream together brown sugar and butter. Then add eggs one at a time
- In a separate bowl mix together flour, salt, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and baking powder
- Mix in alternately the flour mixture and water mixture into the butter mixture
- Be sure to scrape the sides of the bowl and mix again to remove any lumps
- Pour your cake batter into prepared cake pans (greased and floured sides with parchment paper on the bottom)
- Bake for 30-35 minutes at 350
- Serve with peach wedge and vanilla ice cream or whipped cream
Posted in /Cooking/Entrees/Pork on Sunday, April 02, 2017
Pork goes so well with the combination of sweet flavours and you don't get much sweeter than brown sugar.

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Posted in /Cooking/Desserts/Squares on Sunday, April 02, 2017
Ingredients
1 cups Margarine
1 1/4 cups corn syrup
2 cups brown sugar
4 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup cocoa
12 cups puffed wheat
Directions
- In a sauce pan bring margarine and corn syrup to a boil
- Add sugar, vanilla and cocoa to the sauce pan and whisk until smooth
- Pour syrup mixture over puffed wheat and mix thoroughly
- Press puffed wheat into 9×13 pan and let cool
Posted in /Cooking/Desserts/Cake on Sunday, April 02, 2017
Yield: full slab, three 9×13 pans or 6 dozen cupcakes
Ingredients
6 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups margarine
1 1/2 cups cocoa
3 cups coffee (you can use instant coffee, make sure you dissolve it fully first)
6 cups flour
6 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
3 cups sour milk (sour milk = 3 cups regular milk + 3 Tbsp lemon juice)
6 eggs
Directions
- Cream together sugar & margarine
- Whisk together cocoa & coffee then add to the margarine mixture
- In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda & salt. Then add to the previous mixture (this will become very thick).
- Add in sour milk & eggs a little at a time until combined. DO NOT OVERMIX.
- Pour your cake batter into prepared cake pans (greased and floured or parchment paper)
- Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
Posted in /Cooking/Desserts/Cake on Sunday, April 02, 2017
This is another recipe that my students make all the time. But I very often don't have a camera in the classroom.
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