Easy Oatmeal Cake Recipe

Oatmeal Cake

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Oatmeal Cake Recipe

   Ingredients required
1 1/4 cup boiling water
1 cup quaker or mother oats
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup sifted flour
1 teaspoons soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Frosting
1/4 cup butter or oleo, melted
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3 tablespoons half and half
1/3 cup chopped nut meats
3/4 cup shredded coconut

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Oatmeal Cake Recipe

   Pour boiling water over oats, cover and stand 20 minutes. Beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Blend vanilla and eggs. Add oats mixture. Sift flour, salt, soda, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add to cream mixture. Mix well. Pour into well greased and floured 8 by 12 inch pan. Bake 50 to 55 minutes.
For frosting: combine all ingredients. Boil until frosting becomes bubbly. Spread frosting evenly over cake. Cake may be served warm or cold.

Enjoy quick and easy recipes from an old cookbook made about fifty years ago from a rural community plus a recipe from the White House, Mrs.Gerald Ford, the First Lady's Strawberry Blitz Torte recipe about 1975. Also a recipe from the Vice Presidents wife, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller.

Easy Oatmeal Cake Recipe