Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

KLATCH? MEET AMBROSIA.  Matt describes this cake as 'North meets South'. Klatch, belonging to the coffee clan - and ambrosia - that dark, southern flavor. What becomes of this simple cake is a dense banana bread with the flavor of a really good oatmeal cookie. And while you're making oatmeal cookies, you might as well throw in a few chocolate chips, tossed with  a splash of southern bourbon. 

Leave it to BAKED to come up with such unique methods of making cakes. Rather than toss dry oats into a cake batter, you toss them with butter cubes and subject them to a hot bath of boiling water. After sitting 30 minutes or so, they're sufficiently cool and goopey - like oatmeal pudding. Mixed with the other ingredients, the star: dark brown sugar, this cake is surprisingly rich and moist - more so than a traditional coffee cake. I guess that's the ambrosia speaking. Speckled with chocolate chips and lacking its namesake Cream Cheese spread (it's perfectly fine naked) - this Sunday treat lives up to all the hype. A true BAKED creation.

To get this recipe, visit BAKED SUNDAY MORNINGS and see all the other coffee klatch cakes.
     

   – mike