ABC Oatmeal Cake

January is National Oatmeal Month!

Not the most exciting holiday but worth celebrating!

I decided to bake a cake to celebrate the holiday

I found this recipe and decided to play around with it just a bit. 

What I came up with was 

ABC Oatmeal Cake

with an creamy apple butter drizzle

Let's get to baking

here's the recipe

1 cup quick oats, uncooked

1 cup boiling water

1/2 c butter

1 cup sugar

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 banana MASHED

2 eggs, beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 large apple chopped

Step One:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Step 2:

Grease and flour a 9 x 13 inch pan. 

Set aside

Step 3:

Pour boiling water over oats in a bowl. 

Let them sit for 20 min

Step 4:

Beat butter with both sugars in a large mixing bowl. 

Make them light and fluffy. 

Step 5:

Mash up a banana. 

Make this kid fun and friendly by placing the banana in a ziploc bag. 

Once banana is mashed cut off a corner and let kids squeeze it into the bowl. 

Add the mashed banana to the fluffed up sugar and butter. 

Add cooked oatmeal at this time.

Also add buttermilk

Step 6:

Beat eggs and vanilla together. 

Add this to wet mixture. 

Step 7:

Sift together and flour other dry ingredients. 

Add to wet mixture and stir together. 

Step 8:

Chop up apple. 

I leave the peel on. 

We didn't notice it was there when we were eating the cake. 

I like to use one of these slap choppy guys with kids. 

They have a great time destroying produce with it. 

Some of the cherries were pretty large. 

I decided to chop them up a bit so you could get more cherries in each bite. 

Step 9:

Add apples and cherries to mixture 

stir until blended

Step 10:

Bake it Up!

While the cake is baking make up the glaze

We don't eat too much frosting in our house so I decided to make up a glaze for this. 

Plus I had all that apple butter that I made earlier this week

Apple Butter Cream Cheese Glaze

8 ounces whipped cream cheese

1/2 cup apple butter

3 tablespoons soft butter

1 tablespoon milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

2 cups powdered sugar

Beat cream cheese with butter and apple butter until smooth

Add milk, vanilla, cinnamon, and powdered sugar. 

Beat until frosting is smooth. 

Store in fridge.

When cake is done remove from oven and let cool. 

Drizzle with glaze

Enjoy the holiday!