A Molly cake is a type of moist, and often fruit based cake that has a chewy and gooey texture and is often made with raisins, dates and other dried fruits and without butter or eggs although some type of Molly cakes contain eggs and butter.
A Molly cake is also called a Gooey Molly Cake or even a Molly Brown Cake.
The ingredients in a Molly Cake are often dates, mixed dried fruits such as sultanas, raisins, currants, flour, both plain and wholemeal flower and baking powder as well as cinnamon, mixed spice and orange juice.
The texture of the Molly cake is sticky, moist and chewy.
And some recipes for Molly Cakes have a layer of whipped cream with fresh fruit like strawberries and bananas.
The exact origin of the Molly cake is not known although the Molly Cake is very popular in the United Kingdom and is also often enjoyed as a tea cake or afternoon treat.
And some recipes of the Molly Cake are vegan such as the Molly cake from Beu's Bakehouse which are vegan as they don't use butter and eggs in their Molly cake.