Best 8 Old Fashioned Syrup Cake Recipes

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 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 SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Grease an 8-inch baking pan.
• Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg in a large bowl. Cut in butter with a knife or pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Beat egg and milk in another bowl; stir into flour mixture until batter is just blended. Spread batter in the prepared baking pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until golden, about 15 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

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.

KING CAKE OLD FASHIONED

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, bring the sugar, water, and cinnamon sticks to a boil, stirring occasionally, and continue boiling until the sugar is completely dissolved, 10 to 15 minutes. Cool the syrup then remove and discard the cinnamon sticks. DO AHEAD: Cinnamon syrup can be made ahead and refrigerated, in an airtight container, for up to 1 week.
• Place 1 (2 1/2-inch) ice cube in a rocks glass. Add the rum, the bitters, and 1/2 teaspoon (1/4 ounce) cinnamon syrup, and stir until well chilled. Squeeze the orange peel over the drink, making sure the oils fall into the glass, then thread the peel, along with the raisins, onto a cocktail pick. Place the pick in the drink and serve.

BUSY DAY SYRUP CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 3 (8 inch) pans. Sift together the flour, 1/2 cup cocoa, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together the shortening and cane syrup until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with 2/3 cup milk, mixing just until incorporated. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pans for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely. Frost between layers, on top and sides with Easy Chocolate Frosting.
• To make Easy Chocolate Frosting: In a saucepan, combine 1/2 cup butter, 1/4 cup cocoa and 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils. Remove from heat. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar and continue beating until spreading consistency is achieved. Beat in vanilla.

OLD FASHIONED SYRUP CAKE

Steps:

• GREASE AND LIGHTLY FLOUR A 9X9X2 INCH BAKING PAN. IN A BOWL STIR TOGETHER THE FLOUR,BAKING POWDER,AND SODA
• 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.
• 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