Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Cake

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon baking soda 
• 1 cup firmly brown sugar packed
• 15 servings brown sugar-pecan topping or 
• 15 servings brown sugar-walnut topping 
• 0.5 cup butter cut into pieces
• 2 large eggs 
• 1.3 cups flour all-purpose
• 0.8 cup granulated sugar 
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 
• 0.5 teaspoon ground nutmeg 
• 1 cup regular oats uncooked
• 1.3 cups water boiling

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• oven
• hand mixer

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 35
2. Place oats and butter in bowl of an electric mixer.
3. Pour 1 1/4 cups boiling water over oat mixture; cover and let stand 20 minutes.
4. Stir together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
5. Add eggs, 1 at a time, to oat mixture, beating at medium speed just until blended after each addition. Gradually add sugars, beating just until blended. Gradually add flour mixture, beating just until blended.
6. Pour batter into a greased and floured 13- x 9-inch pan.
7. Bake for 26 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. (Cake will begin to pull away from sides of pan.)
8. Remove cake from oven; increase oven temperature to broil.
9. Spoon Brown Sugar-Pecan or Brown Sugar-Walnut Topping onto warm cake. Gently spread topping over cake using back of a spoon.
10. Broil cake 3 inches from heat 3 to 5 minutes or until sugar is bubbly and lightly browned.
11. Let cake cool completely (about 3 to 4 hours).