Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Preparation info
  • Yield:

    one

    9-by-13 inch Cake
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented

By Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

Published 2010

  • About

It may sound devilish, but this cake—which is like a dense banana bread with the flavor of a really good oatmeal chocolate chip cookie—is perfect for breakfast. It is like coffee cake for the cookie enthusiast. Of course, it is also ideal for either an afternoon or a midnight snack, but it was conceived as a breakfast treat. The original recipe was buried deep within a Time-Life cookbook, and it revealed a split personality: Half the cake felt like an ambrosia, while the other half felt lik