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?!
I was wondering if you could sub the tofu for something else?
I didnt use the tofu or yogurt. I just used the same amount of milk and it was fine. Then i also stirred in some chia seeds to thicken it. It was perfect.
yogurt of choice
haha oh and my favorite cereal was captain crunch and kix with berries!!!
Can I just applaud you for your creativity here. Why not blend up cereal? I mean why not right? I love how your mind works to create flavors and great recipes. This sounds just perfect as winter comfort breakfast. I was a Fruit Loops kid when I was really young and then became a Honey Nut Cheerios lover as I got older. Now I’m more prone to buy some sort of wholesome flake cereal and mix in pecans and raisins or something.
I loved(still due, just don’t buy them =pure sugar) Fruity Pebbles cereal. I’d eat a box in two days. My favorite kind besides that is Honey Nut Cheerios. It is soooo good. 🙂
This is a great idea! I will have to try it sometime.
The calorie count for this sounds really low. I am figuring about 100 or so calories for the cereal. About 75 for the milk and 30 for the yogurt. I’m just wondering how you came up with the calories. You didn’t count the chips, correct?
My favorite cereal growing up was Captain Crunch Peanut Butter! And I loved the charms in Lucky Charms!
Definitely nowhere near 75 calories for the milk. My milk only has 30 calories per cup, and you don’t even use one cup.
Hmm…I don’t know what kind of milk only has 30 calories per cup. Can you please share what type of milk you use? Thanks!
A lot of almond milk brands, especially unsweetened ones only have about 30 calories per cup.
I’m using almond milk which has 34kcal/100ml. What kind of milk do you use? 🙂
Does the type of flake-cereal matter? I know you haven’t tried it with special K vanilla almond, but do is that the same type of flake as a bran flake? I am so excited to try!
I think that would work!
Wow, just had my first bowl–so filling, and easy to boot! I mixed everything except the bran flakes and chips last night, and then blended in the flakes and stirred in the chips. YUM!
As for childhood cereal, I loved Fruity Marshmallow Krispies, which didn’t last long, and Golden Grahams (I had a love/hate relationship with the Golden Grahams–their sogginess was at the same time satisfying and annoying!)
I didn’t have any bran flakes so I just used rice crispies.. unfortunately it wasn’t a good sub 🙁 It might have worked if I used 1 1/4- 1/2 C crispies & lowered milk to 1/2 ? Even though today was a fail.. atleast I still have the REAL recipe to try when I get me some flakes! LOL 🙂
Could I also use oatsmeal instead of cereal flakes?
Sorry, I’ve never tried.
Worked with oatmeal for me! Might need less than a cup cooked oatmeal.
Oh boy this looks good! I can’t wait to try tomorrow.
I was a weird child, I hated all of the sugary cereals. I only liked Cheerios. My Mom would buy us Honey Nut Cheerios for a treat but I did not like them at all. I just wanted plain old Cheerios, no sugar added.
I think I love you just for coming up with this!!!! best recipe EVER!!!!
it will be my dinner after I get the ingredients tomorrow 🙂
THANK YOU!!!
I love your recipes!!! I was really excited to try this one and made it last night and let it set in the fridge for breakfast this morning. It didn’t taste like cookie dough but had good flavor. The texture was a weird though so I couldn’t finish it… I might like the pumpkin one though.
P.S. Your pumpkin bars are my FAVORITE. Made em three times. They’re awesome.
Frosted Flakes were a treat. Our cereals included Special K, Product 19 and Wheaties!
Best. Breakfast. Ever. It tastes divine! (I used oat milk)
My favorite cereal was/is “nougat bites” from Spar (cereal shell filled with nougat). Too much sugar, too much fat, but it’s basically Nutella for breakfast 😀
Frosted flakes were good! I loved fruit loops haha