Maw Maws Oatmeal Cake Recipes

MAW MAW'S OATMEAL CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Pour boiling water over quick oats and let stand for about 15-20 minutes, while you begin mixing up the cake.
• In a mixing bowl, combine sugar, brown sugar, shortening, and eggs, mixing well.
• Sift together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt; add to sugar mixture.
• Add oatmeal and mix well.
• Pour batter into a 9X13-inch greased cake pan.
• Bake for about 30 minutes, or until cake tests done.
• For topping, combine all topping ingredients.
• Prick holes in the top of the cake with a toothpick or ice pick.
• Spread icing over the top of warm cake.
• Place cake under the broiler for just a minute or two until topping starts to brown.
• (My oven browns quickly and only takes 1-2 minutes, so watch closely!).

OATMEAL CAKE

Steps:

• Pour boiling water over oatmeal.
• Set aside to cool.
• Cream sugars and butter.
• Add: oatmeal, flour,soda,cinnamon, eggs, vanilla.
• Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes in a greased and floured 9x13 pan.
• Make icing.
• Mix all icing ingredients,and spread on hot cake.
• Put under broiler for a few minutes til bubbly.

MAW MAW'S THANKSGIVING DRESSING

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350F.
• In a very large mixing bowl, combine bread crumbs, crumbled cornbread, crumbled biscuits, yellow onions, celery, green onions, fresh parsley, sage, salt and pepper.
• Toss well.
• Add melted butter and eggs; mix.
• Add chicken broth, a little at a time, mixing lightly, but well.
• Add enough broth to make mixture extra moist.
• Place mixture into a well-greased baking dish.
• Bake about 45 minutes or until top is golden brown.
• ~NOTE~This can be made ahead of time by mixing everything together, placing it in the well-greased baking dish, covering with foil, and refrigerating.
• To bake, remove from refrigerator and let sit at room temperature for about 30 minutes.
• Then, remove foil and bake for about 45 minutes.

LAZY DAY OATMEAL CAKE

Steps:

• In a shallow bowl soak oats in boiling water for 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile proceed by measuring butter and sugars into beater bowl and beating until light.
• Beat in eggs and vanilla.
• Sift and measure flour, sifting again with the soda and spices.
• By this time the oats will be soaked and cool.
• Remove beaters from creamed mixture and fold in soaked oats.
• Sift flour mixture over and fold in.
• Turn in a buttered 9x9" pan and bake at 350°F for 40-50 minutes .
• Mix all the topping ingredients.
• Do not remove cake from pan but while still hot spread topping over and put under the broiler until bubbly and tinged with gold.
• Watch carefully.