Marshall Field's Plantation Cake

13
Ingredients

2h
Prep Time

60m
Cook Time

3h
Ready In

Recipe: #43177

July 14, 2024

Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Cheese, No Eggs, Cream Cheese Flour, Butter/Margarine, more

recipe by:
dienia b

"Adapted from the Jan. 31, 1963 edition of the Minneapolis Tribune. This Sky Room classic was a reader favorite and was frequently published in recipe request columns. Hot lemon sauce is another recipe here. No eggs in this recipe."

Original is 12 servings

Metric US

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Nutritional

Serving Size: 1 (181.7 g)
Calories 605.2
Total Fat - 31.3 g
Saturated Fat - 19.3 g
Cholesterol - 83 mg
Sodium - 629.7 mg
Total Carbohydrate - 75.2 g
Dietary Fiber - 4.3 g
Sugars - 45.9 g
Protein - 11 g
Calcium - 279.2 mg
Iron - 3.2 mg
Vitamin C - 0.1 mg
Thiamin - 0.2 mg

Step 1

To prepare cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Step 2

Butter bottom and sides of a 9x13 baking pan and Pam spray over.

Step 3

In a bowl, beat butter until creamy with the electric mixer on medium-high speed for about 2 minutes.

Step 4

Add brown sugar and salt, and beat until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes.

Step 5

Reduce speed to low, add flour slowly and mix until crumbly.

Step 6

In a medium bowl, combine water and baking soda.

Step 7

Stir in molasses.

Step 8

Divide crumb mixture in half.

Step 9

Evenly pat half of crumb mixture in the bottom of prepared pan.

Step 10

In a bowl of an electric mixer on low speed, combine molasses mixture with remaining crumb mixture and mix until most of the white pieces are out of the mixture.