Oatmeal Cake w/ Broiled Coconut Icing

Ingredientai

1¼ Cups boiling water. 284gm

1 Cup uncooked rolled oats (old-fashioned oatmeal, not instant)

89gm

½ Cup Butter (softened)

1 Cup Granulated Sugar 198gm

1 Cup Brown Sugar (packed) 213gm

1 tsp. Vanilla. 5gm

2 Eggs

1 ½ Cups All-Purpose Flour. 180gm

1 tsp. Baking Powder 4gm

½ tsp. Salt. 1.3gm

1 ½ tsp. Cinnamon

½ tsp. Nutmeg

Frosting

½ Cup butter melted

1 Cup brown sugar (packed) 213gm

6 Tbsp heavy cream (3 ounces). 85gm

1 Cup chopped walnuts (or pecans as you desire). 113gm

1 ½ Cup shredded coconut. 80gm

Nurodymai

1 Pour boiling water over oatmeal, cover, and let stand for 20 minutes.

2 Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

3 Blend in vanilla and eggs.

4 Stir in oatmeal mixture

5 Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg and stir into creamed mixture, blending well.

6 Turn batter into a greased and floured 9" X 13" pan.

7 Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.

8 Spoon frosting over warm cake and spread.

FROSTING

1 Mix all ingredients together & spread on warm cake.

2 Place under broiler 4-6 inches until frosting is bubbly (several minutes).

Pastabos

I took the cake out of the oven and prepared the frosting. When the frosting was ready (obviously that only took a few minutes), I frosted the cake. The cake has to be pretty warm for the icing to be spread out, as the frosting is pretty thick with the nuts and coconut.