This is pretty good for a “fruit cake”…lol!

Be sure to use the old fashioned rolled oatmeal and not the “quick” or instant 1 or 3 minute oatmeal. My family does not like coconut so we leave out the coconut in the icing, also I think the icing makes the cake moister if coconut is left out. A really great cake “the next day”.

This is similar to the “Shadel Cake” or “Sheath Cake”.

Simple but good.

This is the way my mother always made it and the way my husband loves it.

I guess many of the old time Czech’s would scoff at using a cake mix…but with the addition of the vanilla pudding it is such a moist cake!

This is the old original, accept no substitutes. Most people put cream cheese icing on it…this icing recipe is the original icing…totally different than cream cheese and so much better.

Became popular around the time of the TV show that used that phrase.

This is the 7-minute frosting that I use.
I have read other recipes for 7-minute type icings…they all call for using a double boiler…I haven’t used one and if you keep your heat low enough you shouldn’t need one. An old stand-by recipe from my days at Lone Star Gas Company home ec department in the 1970’s.

This cake is so moist it is almost like a brownie…Yummy! Is similar to the “Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake”