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I checked the food network site and they have an oatmeal cake that calls for steel cut oatmeal.  You probably will not find a "heartier, heavier, denser" cake than one that would be made from steel cut oats. Hop that is the one you are looking for.

THANK YOU !!  Do you know where I would get steel cut oats?

OH WOW! AWESOME! Thank you!  Out of curiousity, since I am an amateur baker....What 'ingredient' or part of the 'instructions' for baking, makes your oatmeal cake recipe (and similar ones) 'thicker' and 'heartier'?

Sorry to bother you again.  I just clicked on the site that you gave me, and it seems to be the same ingredients that I used to bake an oatmeal cake.  But, 'MINE' had the same 'texture' as almost any other cake would have.  It was just a 'cake' made with oatmeal.  It 'looked' (and tasted) like any oatmeal cake or spice cake.  I wonder if the ingredients in 'YOUR' recipe makes the cake texture 'different', because of the 'AMOUNTS' of 'certain' ingredients??  ((Again, describing the cake that the ladies at our church used to make when I was younger....it was:  kinda 'thick' or spongy, kinda 'lumpy', VERY moist, and it did have the coconut type topping)).  

The steel cut oats I use are a brand called Mc Cann's Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal.
I have not made the cake that I found on the Food Network Website.  When I looked it up I just thought the given the fact it called for the steel cut oats rather than the rolled oats it would be a much denser cake.  Sorry if I misled you into thinking I had made the cake.
I have purchased the steel cut oats at my local store, also at a store by me that sells nuts, grains, spices in bulk. 

Krogers sells it.   It is in a blue container. It says Quaker Steel Cut Oats.  I found it on a higher up shelf at the store.

Oh wow! Thank you for looking for that!  I will see if we have it here.

Hi sweetsseeker123, The recipe that egysto lead you to has the same recipe tha is at the quakeroats.com has. it is the same one that i used. I did make *oat flour and used that for 1/3 of the flour that is called for in the recipe and I used regular rolled oats by Quaker. The cake was very moist and heavy bodied.  At make oat flour, you just put oats in your blended and blend untill it is like flour. It will nut be as fine, but is very good and can be used in any recipe, although they do not recommend useing more then 1/3 . Let us know if you tried it and what you thought. Lots of luck.

A member just posted the Lazy Daisy Cake here:

http://www.bettycrocker.com/CommunityForums/forums.aspx/8/18863

Sincerely, Cate

Goodmorning Sweetsseeker123,

Here is my favorite Oatmeal Cake and I hope it is the one you are looking for.

I cup regular Oatmeal

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

1-1/3 cup flour

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp cloves

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp soda

Mix together in mixer bowl

Add to the above the following:

1/2 cup butter

2 eggs

1-1/2 cup boiling water

Putdry ingredents  in mixer bowl and mix together, add  the 1-1/2 cup boiling water, butter and eggs. This will be very watery, don't add anymore oatmeal or you will ruin the cake

Grease and flout  9x 13 pan. 

TOPPING

1 cup walnuts

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

6 tbl melted butter or margarine

1 cup coconut

1/4 cup cream or canned milk

1 tsp vanilla

Mix the cake up and bake it at 350* 45 Min.or until done. After the cake is done spread the topping on and put under the broiler until lightly browned.

  I like to mix my topping first then my cake.  After I put the cake into the 9 x 13 pan I drop the topping into the batter with a teaspoon until I have used it up.  Then bake the cake. I don't frost it.

I hope I havent confused you

Enjoy

Leila