Date Oatmeal Cake With Mocha Frosting Recipes

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Steps:

• 1 Pour hot coffee over oats; cover and let stand for 20 minutes. 2 Meanwhile, cream butter and add sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla. Mix well. 3 Mix together the flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa. 4 Alternate adding small amounts of the dry ingredients with the oats/coffee mixture, mixing well with each addition. 5 Pour into greased bundt pan and bake at 350 degrees for 55 minutes.

MOCHA OATMEAL CAKE

Steps:

• reheat oven to 350.
• Mix coffee and water. Reserve 2 tablespoons for icing.
• Pour over oats and stir.
• Cover and let stand for 20 minutes.
• Beat butter until creamy and add sugars.
• Beat till fluffy.
• Add vanilla and eggs.
• Add oat mixture and blend well.
• Sift together flour, soda, salt and cocoa. Add to other bowl.
• Turn batter into silpat 9 inch equivalent pan (or grease & flour pan).
• Bake 50-55 minutes.
• FROSTING:.
• Cream butter and sugar. Add salt, vanilla and coffee.
• Beat until smooth.
• Frost the cooled cake.

DATE OATMEAL CAKE WITH MOCHA FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350F & prepare your baking dish (I like using a bundt pan for the shape, but a 9" square baking pan is what's recommended).
• In a small bowl, combine oats and boiling water; let stand until cool (note: this takes a while. You might want to combine the oats and water and brew the coffee, take a break and come back to do the rest to allow time for the liquids to cool).
• In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together margarine and brown sugar until fluffy. Beat in vanilla, oat mixture and flour mixture. Stir in dates & walnuts.
• Pour mixture into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for 30-35 minutes, or until cake tester inserted in middle comes out clean. Set aside to cool.
• Prepare the frosting: in a bowl, blend together all frosting ingredients until fluffy. If icing is too thick, add a little more coffee to thin it. If too thin, add icing sugar. Spread icing over cooled cake.

MOCHA FROSTING

Steps:

• For frosting, in a small bowl, dissolve coffee granules in water; set aside. In a bowl, cream butter until light and fluffy. Beat in cocoa. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar and coffee granules until smooth., Cut cake into three horizontal layers. Place bottom layer on a serving plate; spread with frosting. Repeat with middle cake layer. Top with remaining cake layer; frost top and sides of cake. Garnish with chocolate sprinkles if desired.

DATE-OATMEAL CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Put oatmeal and dates in a bowl.
• Pour on the boiling water.
• Stir to combine.
• Let stand 20 minutes.
• Gradually add brown and white sugars to the shortening, creaming well.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each one.
• Stir oatmeal mixture into creamed mixture.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon.
• Add to wet mixture, mixing well.
• Pour into a greased and floured 13" X 9" baking pan.
• Bake in a preheated 350F oven for 45 to 50 minutes, or until done.
• Cool on a rack.
• Frost.
• For frosting, combine butter and lemon peel.
• Sift icing sugar and mix into the butter mixture.
• Gradually stir in the lemon juice.
• Stir until smooth.
• Frost cooled cake.