old fashioned oatmeal cake
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From my friend Debbie - another "old fashioned rustic" cake. It is so yummy! Her family hates raisins, mine love them so sometimes I throw some raisins in the batter too. If I do, I cut the sugar by about 1/4 cup
(2 ratings)
prep time
15 Min
cook time
40 Min
Ingredients For old fashioned oatmeal cake
- CAKE
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1 1/4 cboiling water
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1/2 cunsalted butter
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1 coatmeal, old-fashioned
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1 csugar
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1 cdark brown sugar, packed
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2 lgeggs
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1 1/3 cflour
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1/4 tspfreshly ground nutmeg
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1 tspground cinnamon
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1 tspbaking soda
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1/2 tspsalt
- FROSTING
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1/2 cdark brown sugar, packed
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4 Tbspcream or evaporated milk
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1 ccoconut
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1 cchopped pecans
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6 Tbspmelted butter
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1 tsppure vanilla extract
How To Make old fashioned oatmeal cake
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1Mix together the boiling water, oatmeal and 1/2 C butter. Let set 20 minutes.
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2Mix together sugar, dark brown sugar, and eggs. Add to the oatmeal mixture and beat to blend.
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3Whisk together the flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt, baking soda. Stir into the oatmeal mixture just until blended. If you love raisins, now is the time to stir 3/4 cup of them into the batter.
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4Pour the batter into a greased 9" x 13" pan and bake for 35 minutes at 350 degrees F.
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5While the cake is baking, make the frosting. In a medium bowl mix all the frosting ingredients. Spread the frosting over the cake, then set the cake under the broiler until it bubbles and is browned.
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