Old-Fashioned Molasses Cake with Brown Sugar Buttercream (Doctored Cake Mix)
This Old-Fashioned Molasses Cake starts with a simple cake mix and bakes up rich, moist, and perfectly spiced with a luscious brown sugar buttercream.
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