Chocolate Oatmeal Cake

Ingredients

1 oatmeal
350 ml boiling water
95 gr crisco shortening
300 gr granulated sugar
2 eggs
130 gr sifted all-purpose flour
45 gr powdered cocoa
5 ml soda
1 gr salt
4 gr vanilla
200 gr sifted powdered sugar
160 gr coconut
28 gr butter
120 ml milk

Instructions

Pecans (chopped) Vanilla * If using minute oatmeal, chop it up in small pieces before soaking it up in hot water. Mix oatmeal and boiling water and let cool. Cream shortening with sugar and eggs, add rest of ingredients along with oatmeal mixture. Beat till smooth. Bake in 8x12 greased pan at 180ÂșC or 35 minutes. Frosting: Mix powdered sugar, butter and milk and boil till thick (about 6 minutes). Be carefully it doesn't get too hot and burn on the bottom, you must continue to stir constantly. Add coconut, pecans and vanilla.