Grandpa's Favorite Cake

Thank you Mary Roth ( My Dad's sister)

Ingredients 

Cake
1 1/2 Cup	Boiling water		1 1/2 Cup	Flour
1 Cup	Quick Oatmeal		1 Tbsp	Baking soda
2	Eggs		1/2 tsp	Salt
1/2 Cup	Margarine		1 Cup	White sugar
1 Cup	Brown Sugar
Frosting
6 Tbsp	Butter - softened		1 Cup	Coconut
1/4 Cup	Evaported Milk		1/2 Cup	Chopped Nuts
3/4 Cup	Brown Sugar

Directions 

Pour boiling water over quick oatmeal.  Let stand 15 min.  Add eggs. In a separate bowl cream together the margarine, and both sugars. . Sift in another bowl the flour, soda, and salt.  Add alternately flour, oatmeal mixture with sugar/margarine mixture.  Bake 30-40 min.at 350 degrees.

Frosting: in a bowl mix the butter, evaporated milk, brown sugar, coconut and chopped nuts.  Pour frosting over hot cake and brown under broiler.  WATCH closely it burns easily.  

My father as skinny as could be would finish his breakfast with a large hunk of his favorite cake.

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