Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cake with Coconut-Brown Sugar Topping

Lovely, simple cake for after dinner when you feel like a little dessert.  I was able to successfully cut the recipe in half and pour into a small round cake pan.  Original recipe (as shown below) will fill a longer, rectangular dish/pan.

Ingredients:

Cake:
1 cup quick-oats
1 cup butter
1 1/4 cup boiling water
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups flour
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

Icing:
5 tbsp butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup coconut
1/2 cup walnuts (optional)

Directions:

Cake:
Mix oats, butter and water together in large mixing bowl and put towel over top.  Let sit for 20 minutes.  Then rest of cake ingredients and mix well (I used my electric hand beaters).  Pour in greased pan and bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes (if recipe is cut in half, 20 mins). 

Icing:
Mix ingredients together in sauce pan over medium heat stirring often.  Bring to boil for a couple minutes (stirring stirring stirring so not to let the bottom burn).  If it's hard to see the "boiling" like it was for me, just let it cook long enough to incorporate and get hot.  Don't let the coconut burn.

Spread icing/topping on cake as soon as it's done baking so it melts into cake.  Serve warm.  Though I may have had a piece for breakfast at room temperature the next day and enjoyed it as well ;)

UPDATE: one time we topped the whole thing with skor bits.  Enough said.