Cookie dough for breakfast.
Finally, a reason to love Mondays.
When I was little, I saw commercials for a cereal called “Cookie Crisps” that claimed to taste just like cookies for breakfast. Obviously my 7-year-old self begged and begged until my mom finally relented and bought it, cautioning me the entire time it wouldn’t really taste like cookies.
She was right, of course. Cookie Crisps tasted not like cookies, but like a different c word: cardboard. (Sadly, I didn’t learn my lesson. The next year I made her buy Count Chocula, another cardboard-esque breakfast cereal.)
With today’s recipe, you can finally have a cereal that really does taste like chocolate-chip cookies and milk all blended together.
Breakfast Cookie Dough
(serves 1)
- 1 cup flake cereal (bran flakes, cornflakes, spelt flakes, etc.) (35g)
- 1/3 cup Mori-Nu tofu, or yogurt of choice (80g)
- 3/4 cup milk of choice (180g)
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp salt
- sweetener of choice (such as stevia, sugar, or even maple syrup)
- handful of chocolate chips
- optional:1 tbsp peanut butter, or 2 tsp coconut or veg oil (or sub another nut butter for the peanut)
Blend together all ingredients, except chips. (I use a Magic Bullet.) Stir in chips. The cereal will have a thin consistency at first, but if you leave it in the fridge (after blending) for even just 10 minutes, it starts to get really thick. Good cold or hot.
Growing up, did you have a favorite breakfast cereal?
I took turns with Frosted Flakes, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Kix, and Life. But my all-time favorite was Apple Cinnamon Cheerios. When I was going through a growth spurt in 7th grade, I’d routinely come home from school and polish off an entire box!
By the way, one of the Cookie Crisp slogans is, “You can’t have cookies for breakfast, but you can have Cookie Crisp.” Ummm wait a second… who says you can’t have cookies for breakfast?!
Hmmm, I think I just found my breakfast for tomorrow morning! I love recipes that I can make the night before, as I’m a roll out of bed and brush my hair and teeth quick before running out the door for work kind of girl. Usually, that leaves me with smoothies or protein shakes for breakfast so recipes like this one are always welcome in my kitchen!
I also went through phases with my favorite cereals growing up. However, I tended to favor Trix, Kix, and all varieties of Cheerios (except recently. I’m not so crazy about the banana nut [which sounded more delicious than it is] or the chocolate ones.). I did go through a cocoa puffs period, though!
So are the calories not including the PB or oil? I was confused by that last paragraph.
No, those are optional ingredients.
I ate a lot of breakfast cereal as a kid..its hard to say which one was my favorite..I used to love it when my mom would buy me those variety packs with all the different cereals in small sizes! I also really liked Kix and Lucky Charms but I would only eat the marshmallows. Does anyone remember Ice Cream Cones cereal? I have vague memories of it, lol, I don’t think it lasted long on the market.
My mom once bought a case of Cheerios. We ate it for breakfast, snacks, made marshmallow treats and trail mixes with it. We crushed it up and made bread and pancakes with it just to use it up. We got sick of Cheerios. It took 20 years before I could eat them again! But I don’t think I’d ever get tired of eating Golden Grahams or Life cereal. Or cookie dough- for sure.
That. Looks. Like. Cookie. Dough. Heaven.
this looks amazing! I just made some, but Over Night Oats style with unsweetened almond milk & maple syrup, plus additions of 1/2 TBSP of Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter & Chia Seeds. Hopefully they turn out alright in the am.
As for cereal, honestly, my sister was always obsessed with Cookie Crisp, and some of my friends from Las Vegas still are, but I personally could not get enough Crispix or Life cereal, always with Soy milk. Now, I’d opt for the same, plus Puffins are a new obsession!
One Word- AMAZING!!! I was about to go and have myself a plain old bowl of cereal when i remembered that i wanted to try this. I didnt have any tofu or yogurt in the house so i made it with just the 3/4 cup milk. It was a bit liquidy so i put in a sprinkle of chia seeds to thicken it. Let it sit in fridge a few minutes and now i am enjoying it. Wow tastes like a cookie for breakfast!!!!
Oh and i did add in about 1 TB of cashew butter.
SO SO good! Thanks so much Katie!
And this is really really filling. Usually i would still be hungry after one bowl of cereal, but as i’m eating this i really feel like its filling me up.
Just made it, and it really DOES taste like cookies and milk!
Thank you, Katie! YUM!
Hmmmm tofu for breakfast—I don’t see why not!! Especially if it’s in the form of cookie dough 🙂
Yummy! This is different than the usual oatmeal! Nice!
Could I make this the night before and heat it up in the morning? Or would it be nasty?
I haven’t tried so I really don’t know. But you can mix the dry the night before.
I made this the night before and ate it cold the next day. It was very thick and totally delicious 🙂
OMG! That does look and sound good. Growing up I was really into Cap n Crunch – but it was rough on the roof of your mouth! My mom bought all the sugary cereals and we ate tons of that stuff.
Katie looks like you have a case of the Moondays
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChfIyHZqEd8
This looks great! I’d have to say my favorite cereal was Captain Crunch (and still is!) haha
I remember begging my mom to get cookie crisp too!!! And it definitely tastes like cardboard!
I really like weetabix, all soggy with a little maple syrup! so gross but yet so good! Yummy recipe thanks.