Emeril's Shoofly Pie

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Emeril again transports me to a new version of the recipe that originated with the Amish in Lancaster, PA! This is a wickedly decadent dessert. Yum!

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just cut one of the pies, after cooling less than 1 and one half hrs. and it was good. i looked at the other recipes but decided on emeril's because i was making 2 anyway so i thought "go for it", try this one. all along, thinking i was going to use dark corn syrup, because the bottle had been staring at me for a couple of weeks on my table, realized while looking at the recipe again, i was switching corn syrup for molasses. i didn't have 2 cups of molasses, the bottle is 12oz. and a little was gone, i think, so measured out up to 2 c. with about little more than 1/2 c. of corn syrup. i always worry about burning the crust and didn't feel like covering them so after lowering the temp. from 450, i went to 350 and 5 min. later just kept it at 325. they were firm but very moist. i might try 1 or 2 of the others but of course, nothing can compare with the amish one, if that's what you like. i'd been wishing for one of those, which i haven't had for 10 to 12 yrs. and all i have to do is go to one of their stands in the reading terminal in center city(phila. or to lancaster co., pa. (a full "all you can eat" meal is what i,ve been wishing, without cooking it myself, to get amish baked goods. they also sell at farmer's market locations in states where they live and nearby. when my daughter was a child, i started making the oatmeal cookie recipe that was in a little book i bought at one of their eateries in lancaster co., about 35 yrs. ago and they were crispy and delicious. i lost the book and then would remember the ingredients, but since, forgot exactly how. i'm going to try, it's a simple recipe and didn't look all over lancaster or ask anyone about it since i was there.

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Don't mess with a timeless classic. This is my favorite pie of all time, so I am of course going to be a bit more critical. I just did not like the taste of this version at all. There are a lot better shoofly pie recipes, especially wet-bottom (my fave elsewhere on the internet.