Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cake

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 c boiling water
• 1 c uncooked oatmeal (old-fashioned, rolled kind is best, but I think “quick” works too)
• 1 c lightly packed brown sugar
• 1 c sugar
• 1 stick (1/2 c) butter, cut into 6-8 chunks
• 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 3/4 c all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp soda
• 3/4 tsp kosher salt
• 1 T unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 12-oz package semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 3/4 c chopped walnuts

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Grease and flour a 9″x13″ cake pan.

Put the oatmeal in a medium to large bowl and pour the boiling water over it. Let stand for 10 minutes.  Add the brown and white sugar and butter to the oatmeal.   Stir until the butter melts.  Add the lightly beaten eggs and mix well.

Whisk together the flour, soda, salt and cocoa until well mixed.  Add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture and stir together until it’s all incorporated, but don’t beat.  Stir in about half of the package of chocolate chips.

Pour the batter into the cake pan; sprinkle the chopped walnuts over all of the top and then sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips over that.  Bake for about 40 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.