Purging Cupboard Love

I have an enormous amount of work to do today, and I hope to get at least the more important aspects done. Like the laundry.

One of the things I have to do, however, is go through my baking cupboard and record how much of everything I have. I want to get rid of it all, and I figure the best (most productive) way to do that will be to bake for the church's concert night. That won't be for almost a month, but that gives me time to assess and find recipes to use the amounts of stuff I have.

Time for a chart, I suppose. ;-)

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But now for laundry. Fun fun fun.

And after that, set the chicken to marinate.

But before either of those, breakfast! I've made myself hungry somehow.

Woah!

Well, I've figured it out, more or less, and I've got a buttload of baking to do. Some of it can be done in advance, fortunately, like the refrigerator cookies, and all but the nanaimo bars are easy.

So, what I'm probably going to be making is:

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Even with all of that plus a planned pineapple upside-down cake, I will still have 1.75 cups whole wheat flour, 3.5 cups cake flour, 1.25 cups white sugar, 1 cup brown sugar and 2 cups molasses leftover. I won't even mention the raisins as they're snack food for Babe.

Edit: With gingerbread, now totals are 1.75 cups whole wheat flour, 1.5 cups cake flour, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 cup brown sugar and 1 cup molasses.  Much better.  Thank you, evieeros!

And, of course, there are also pudding mixes and such that will also have to be used up eventually. But they can stay in the cupboard for emergencies. ("Help me! I need sugar!" "You are in luck, my friend! Here, have this coconut cream pie! Or would you prefer some Jello?")

Except for the molasses, I have a good idea of what to do with the leftovers, but the molasses really is giving me pause. I could make gingerbread/snaps, but that doesn't use much molasses at all. I do not want to attempt making molasses taffy again, although that would use up both the molasses and white sugar quite nicely. I just don't know. I wouldn't mind keeping it in the cupboard for use on oatmeal, but no one here eats oatmeal anymore. Besides, whenever I do, I much prefer raisins.

So, if you have any suggestions on what to do with the leftovers that includes tons of molasses, I would appreciate the help!