Oatmeal Spice Cake With Browned Butter Frosting Food

OATMEAL SPICE CAKE AND FROSTING

Steps:

• Directions for the cake Add oats and butter to boiling water.
• Reduce heat and cook for five minutes to soften oats.
• Meanwhile, mix together the beaten eggs and the brown sugar, and set aside.
• Sift the rest of the dry ingredients together into a large bowl.
• Add the softened oats and the egg mixture and stir together.
• Batter will be heavy.
• Pour into a 9 x 13 pan and bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.
• While baking, prepare the icing (recipe to follow).
• Directions for the icing In a medium saucepan, melt the butter.
• Add the brown sugar and stir to melt and combine.
• Add the remaining ingredients and stir until combined.
• When cake is done, pour the icing onto the hot cake.
• Broil for five minutes, watching cake closely, until icing is bubbly.

GRAMMY'S OATMEAL SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 dF.
• 2. In bowl, pour boiling water over oats, butter, brown and white sugar. Stir well. Let cool.
• 3. In separate bowl, whisk together remaining dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon). NOTE** For high altitude (above 3500 ft) add 2 additional tsp. flour.
• 4. When oatmeal mixture is cool, add eggs and dry ingredients. Stir well.
• 5. Pour batter into prepared 9 x 13 pan or round cake pans. Bake at 350 dF for about 30-50 minutes (depending on pan) or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• 6. Let cake cool and frost with German-Style Frosting.
• 7. For Frosting: 1. Combine milk, brown sugar and butter in heavy pan. 2. Bring to good, rolling boil then remove from heat. 3. Stir in coconut and chopped nuts. Spread on cake while frosting is still warm, otherwise it will set up to the point you can't spread it.

OATMEAL CAKE WITH BROILED FROSTING

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine oats and water; let stand for 20 minutes. In a large bowl, combine the sugars, applesauce and eggs. Add oat mixture; mix well. Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and nutmeg; gradually add to batter and mix well., Pour into a 13x9-in. baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. , In a large bowl, combine frosting ingredients; spread over hot cake. Broil 6 in. from the heat for 1-2 minutes or until lightly browned and bubbly.

OATMEAL SPICE CAKE WITH BROWNED BUTTER FROSTING

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 350°.2. Grease rectangular pan, 13 x 9 x 2 inches with shortening lightly flour.3. Beat all ingredients except Browned Butter Frosting with electric mixer in large bowl 30 seconds on low speed, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on high speed 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour into pan.4. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack. Prepare Browned Butter Frosting spread on cake.BROWNED BUTTER FROSTINGHeat butter over medium heat until delicate brown. Mix in powdered sugar. Beat in vanilla and enough milk until smooth and spreadable.1 SERVING: Calories 330 (Calories from Fat 100) Fat 11g (Saturated 4g) Cholesterol 35mg Sodium 230mg Carbohydrates 56g (Dietary Fiber 1g) Protein 3g.

PUMPKIN SPICE CAKE WITH BROWNED BUTTER FROSTING

Steps:

• Allow butter and eggs to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, grease and flour two 8" cake pans.
• In a bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, ginger, salt, nutmeg and cloves until mixed. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer beat softened butter and shortening on high speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar and vanilla and continue mixing. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• In a small bowl, stir together buttermilk and pumpkin. Alternately add flour mixture and pumpkin mixture to butter and sugar mixture, ending with flour mixture. Beat on low speed just until combined. Pour into prepared pans. Batter will be thick. Use a spatula to spread evenly in pans or cakes will be lumpy.
• Bake in a preheated 350°F oven for 30 to 35 minutes or until cake tests done. Cool in pans for 10 minutes then turn out onto wire rack to cool completely.
• For Frosting:.
• Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Reduce heat to medium low and continue cooking at a simmer until butter turns the color of light brown sugar. This will take a few minutes. Remove from heat and let stand at room temperature for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in a large mixing bowl combine powdered sugar with milk and vanilla. Add browned butter and beat with an electric mixer on low speed until combined. Beat on high speed, adding more milk as needed to get a spreading consistency.
• Frost cake. If using, press toasted pecans around side of cake. Can take a sieve or sifter and dust the top with pumpkin pie spice if you wish.