Based on the comments in the reviews I made the following changes: white sugar in cake reduced from 1 cup to 2/3 cup, nutmeg reduced from 1t to 2/3t, white sugar in frosting reduced from 1/2 cup to 1/4 cup, cream increased from 1/4 cup to 1/4 cup plus 1T. I broiled the cake for 2 minutes and it seemed enough. Cake was excellent!

Excellent! If you are looking for a moist, heavy, homemade cake, look no more, you have found it!! Yummmmmmy!!

Oh my goodness...this cake is absolutely wonderful. I doubled the icing, and am glad I did, but other than that I followed the recipe exactly. I have never had oatmeal cake and didn't really know what to expect but I can't say enough about it!!! When baking, make sure to test with a toothpick because my cake did not look done but it was. I am glad that I checked, otherwise it would have been overbaked. I will be making this again to take to a family visit this weekend!!!

Next time maybe double the topping.

This was exellent using nearly double the topping. Charlie suggested adding raisins - Paul suggested soft nuts in topping - the guys wanted even MORE topping. If I use the dark pan, decrease baking time radically

Cake was moist but way too sweet. Also the topping was way way to sweet.

I decided to try this recipe after reading the reviews. I must say that I agree with the excellent reviews. I had not baked for a while, however the recipe was very easy to follow and the result was wonderful. I received many great comments from my guests and I also enjoyed a slice myself. It was unbelievably moist. Thank you for such a geat recipe! I will use it often.

Great recipe, easy to make and everyone loved it...Thank you

Who would have ever thought that oatmeal could make such a delicious cake! I doubled it for two cakes and used coconut oil instead of butter for the cake part of the recipe but I used butter for the broiled icing. Oh, yeah...by mistake I used more brown sugar and less white sugar in the cake batter but it was still outstanding! Thanks for the recipe!

This is a delicious, moist cake! We all loved it. The topping is wonderful. I would encourage everyone to make it. Next time I'll use a smaller baking pan though.

I made this cake for our after-church coffee and have never before heard so many raves among the men and women there.

This is an unbelievable dessert! So moist and the topping is just to die for!!

This cake is to DIE for!! I followed the recipe exactly, with the exception of the small adjustments needed for high altitude baking, and my husband was eating it before it was even cool. Positively yummy - don't let the lack of rising or the finished looks scare you off; your friends and family will beg for more! Thanks for an incredible cake recipe!

Ok...WOW!!! I made this to take for my son's class and I was afraid looking at it, that it wouldn't be kid friendly. They completely devoured it!! This is so delicious!! It looks ok...but the taste is outstanding!!!!! I am not a huge fan of coconut but you can't skip that step. It becomes this amazing crunchy coconut topping.....YUMMY!!! Thank you!!!

This cake was pretty good. A little too sweet though. I didn't use the recomended topping, because it would have made it that much sweeter. I ended up doing a bitter sweet chocolate ganache glaze, and then sprinkled it with coconut. The flavors went very well together. The spices in the cake were nice.

This is a delicious, dense, rich cake that is very tasty, everyone loved the cake. It doesn't rise much at all, at least mine didn't, and I thought I did something wrong but it wasn't even an issue once everyone tasted it. As one reviewer mentioned it only needs about 1 and half minutes under the broil, that was very useful to know, I kept a watchful eye on it and it was perfect, I didn't serve it warm because I always make my cakes a day ahead of time, I find the cakes taste better and it's one less thing to prepare the day of the dinner party. I did use less nutmeg then the recipe (half) called for that was the only other change I made. Thank you for this recipe, I love oatmeal so this will become a favorite of mine.

This cake was just delicious. Unfortunately, my broiler isn't working so I wasn't able to broil it at the end of the baking time, but it still came out great. I decreased the nutmeg to 1/2 teaspoon because I don't like a strong taste. A new fave!

Everybody loves this......I use a spice cake mix instead of yellow.

This is a GREAT recipe. One of my professors made it for a meeting, and I insisted she give me the recipe. I just made a lower-fat version last night, I reduced the butter in the cake to 2 Tbsp and added 1/3 cup of applesauce, and reduced the butter in the topping to 2 Tbsp and used 1/3 cup of skim milk instead of the cream. Comes out almost as perfect as the original cake, and less guilt! :-)

I absolutely love it. My family loved it, and I am definitely going to make it again for my boyfriend. My family doesn't like coconut so I didn't put any in. I also put in less butter and milk instead of cream (only because I didn't have cream). A good suggestion would be to poke holes in the cake before pouring the icing stuff on. It makes it soak through the whole cake. Yum!!!!!