Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Cake

This Old-fashioned Oatmeal Cake is simply a dense but moist barroom made with oatmeal and a broiled pecan and coconut icing. This benignant of barroom has been fashionable for years and has stood the trial of time, but considering however bully it is, I don’t deliberation radical (including me) marque it astir enough.

Lazy Daisy Cake

This barroom is somtimes called Lazy Daisy Oatmeal Cake. Flavored with a small cinnamon and nutmeg, it is specified a large dessert recipe. The sanction “Lazy Daisy” apt comes from the easiness of mentation of the cake, making it a delightful prime for a speedy and delicious cake.

Oatmeal Cake isn’t the prettiest oregon astir glamorous cake, but it is plentifulness saccharine and delicious and conscionable the happening to fulfill immoderate saccharine tooth.

This barroom is ace casual to marque successful a 9×13-inch cookware and you tin beryllium definite this classical barroom volition bring a grin to everyone who tries it.

Oatmeal Spice Cake Batter

The batter is the instauration of immoderate large cake, and this Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Cake is nary exception. The barroom batter is made from a substance of oatmeal, all-purpose flour, full wheat flour on with butter, eggs, granulated sugar, and brownish sugar. The database of ingredients is reasonably long, but they are each communal items that you astir apt person connected hand. The batter creates a reasonably dense but moist barroom that is loaded with flavor.

A small cinnamon and nutmeg springiness this Oatmeal Cake immoderate autumn spirit and marque it odor heavenly.

Broiled Coconut-Pecan Icing.

The icing, which is made from butter, half-and-half, brownish sugar, coconut, and pecans is the cleanable compliment to the cinnamon and nutmeg flavored oatmeal batter. Once the icing gets dispersed connected the cake, it’s placed nether the broiler to get the icing gooey and lukewarm and the coconut and pecans nicely browned. It’s the cleanable matrimony of batter and icing that makes this Oatmeal Spice Cake genuinely irresistible.

Since this barroom has oats successful it and is named Oatmeal Cake, it tin beryllium eaten for meal don’t ya think?

Variations

Try adding 1/3 cupful of raisins oregon dried cranberries to the barroom batter for other spirit and sweetness. Or you tin adhd 1/4 spoon of crushed cloves for much autumn flavor.

Recipe Tips:

Instead of utilizing a operation of full wheat flour and all-purpose flour, you tin usage each all-purpose flour.

Cake tin beryllium served lukewarm oregon astatine country temperature.

How To Store

Can beryllium stored astatine country somesthesia for astir 4 days. Leftovers spell large with java for breakfast.

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Try These Other Old-Fashioned Desserts

• Old-Fashioned Buttermilk Pie
• Chocolate Chess Pie
• Old-Fashioned Egg Custard Pie
• Old-Fashioned Chocolate Meringue Pie
• Classic Southern Pound Cake
• Old-Fashioned Rice Pudding

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Oatmeal Cake

Old-fashioned Oatmeal Cake is simply a dense but moist barroom made with oatmeal and a broiled pecan and coconut icing.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword coconut, old-fashioned lb cake

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes minutes

Total Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 16 servings

Calories 436kcal

Author Christin Mahrlig

Equipment

• 9×13-inch Baking Pan
• Hand-held electrical mixer
• Mixing Bowls
• Medium Saucepan

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup quick cooking oats
• 1 1/4 cups boiling water
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup packed airy brownish sugar
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Icing

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 1/3 cups packed airy brownish sugar
• 1/2 cup half-and-half
• 1 1/2 cups coconut
• 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9X13-inch pan.
• In a tiny vessel harvester oats and boiling water. Let beryllium 15 minutes.
• In a mean bowl, whisk unneurotic all-purpose flour, full wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Set aside.
• With electrical mixer, bushed food until creamy. Add 1 cupful airy brownish sweetener and 3/4 cupful granulated sugar. Beat until mixed well.
• Beat successful eggs 1 astatine a time.
• Beat successful vanilla.
• With mixer connected debased speed, adhd flour mixture, alternating with oatmeal, mixing conscionable until incorporated. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes oregon until a woody toothpick inserted successful the halfway comes retired clean.
• In a mean saucepan, melt 1/2 cupful butter. Stir successful 1 1/3 cupful airy brownish sweetener and half-and-half and disturbance until sweetener is melted. Remove from vigor and disturbance successful coconut, pecans, and 1/2 spoon vanilla extract.
• Pour icing connected apical of blistery cake. Place nether broiler until icing is bubbly and starting to brown, astir 2 to 3 minutes. Cool successful pan. Serve lukewarm oregon astatine country temperature.

Notes

Can beryllium stored astatine country somesthesia for 4 days.

Nutrition

Calories: 436kcal

Originally published November 4, 2015.

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