Scottish Oatmeal Cake - The Saga Continues

I have been putting off unmolding my oatmeal cake this morning.  I went to the grocery store first to get that out of the way.  Once I start cooking, I do not want to have to stop to go to the grocery store.  I just want everything already in the house so I can cook until I pass out.

After unloading all the groceries and putting them away, it was oatmeal cake cooking time.  I unmolded the cake and for the first time EVER in all the times I've made this, the cake was not all gooey!  This time I used heaping cups of oats instead of level cups and maybe that is what fixed my problem.  Oh this is exciting.  This is big.

I sliced the cake, sprinkled with sugar, and put it in the oven.  I set the timer for 10 minutes, then I opened a bag of black beans, washed them, picked through them, and got them on the stove to get boiling.  After that I put in a load of laundry.  Then I washed the cutting board and the knife, dried them, and put them away.  I still had 5 minutes to kill so I sat on the floor in front of the oven and stared in at the oatmeal cakes, cooking away in all their firm glory.  If I could multitask like this all day long, I could really get a lot accomplished!  Dude, you'll be lucky if I finish cooking oatmeal cake before I go take a nap.

After 10  minutes, I took the oatmeal cakes out to inspect them.  They weren't done enough, in my opinion, because they were still pretty pale.  By this time the beans were boiling, so I turned them off to sit for a while.  I'll get back to them later.

I flipped one of the oatmeal cakes over to see how the bottom was doing, and it was pretty wet.  So, I flipped all of them over, sprinkled another tablespoon of sugar over them (over ALL of them, not a tablespoon of sugar on each one).   Back into the oven for another 10 minutes.

When that 10 minutes was up, I took them out of the oven to inspect them again.  Much darker!  While the broiler heated up, I decided to flip all the cakes over again, to get the now-melty-sugar-covered side up under the broiler.  When they were finished broiling, I was happy to see the best-looking Scottish Oatmeal Cakes I have ever cooked.  Happy new year to me!

That's what I'm talkin' about.

And here is a picture of my breakfast!  A little Greek yogurt, homemade granola with cranberries, almonds and walnuts, and a drizzle of honey. 

This is so good for me, and so decadent!  These are the nutritional stats for the cake, not including the yogurt and granola and honey.