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 think I actually smelled this through my computer. I am not joking. It was great.
On another note, I’ve asked around a bit in the blog world, but I know you’re big on Q and As and I know that you’re now safely in the categories of vegans who’s friends and family are well aware and you don’t need to explain things anymore. SO.. advice?
Recently made the transition from vegetarian to vegan and it’s harder on everyone else than on me. How can I go to dinner parties that I’ve always gone to but now explain that I can’t eat anything because it all has dairy in it? What do you do when your friends forget and get you gifts that you aren’t going to touch? I hate offending everyone and making them feel guilty, but if I want to keep this up I have GOT to find an less stressful way to dealing with meeting friends for dinner. thoughts???
I guess I have more than one post to answer all that ;).
https://lett-trim.today/2011/11/20/special-diet-parties/%3C/a%3E%3Cbr /> aaaand…
https://lett-trim.today/veganism/%3C/a%3E%3Cbr /> Hopefully that can be somewhat helpful!
will this wk with water instead of milk and quick oats instead of cereal? if not, what cereal would have same value as oats?
Ahhh and again you are my savior! I used to eat oatmeal every day for breakfast, but unfortunately my body suddenly decided it wasn’t cool with that anymore… I have been eating cereal and milk for breakfast for awhile but this is sooo much better!
I made it with multigrain cheerios for the cereal, banana instead of tofu, and peanut butter!! SOOO good! No sweetener needed with the banana’s sweetness 🙂 Thanks CCK!!
I’ve tried the cookie crisps and they were a disappointment! The cereal looks incredible, I think I’ll have that for dinner today, yumm!
The hardest part about this recipe….holding back the sinister laugh as the kids ooh! and ahh! And say things like “this is really good!”… Nothing short of brilliant is this simple cereal twist! I have a milk allergy son, so I made this without yogurt, and used almond milk. Tossed in some toasted almonds because, why not? Would my kids ever touch whole wheat berry and flax seed cereal, no way of course not! Will they happily eat ‘cookie dough’ breakfast- you betcha!
This looks amazing! If anyone tries with oats, please tell us the results!
Also would this be good with weetabix? I love them and they seem a similar consistency.
Thanks Katie 😀
Do you think that plain greek yogurt would work in this? Or would the flavor be too overwhelming/ the texture be too thick?
I used Greek yogurt (chobani) and it was perfect <3
Hi everyone!
I modified this recipe a bit becasue it just looked so delish, I HAD to try it even though I didn’t have the same ingridients!
I didn’t have any bran flakes, so I used 2 weetabix (they looked similar texture) and a couple tablespoons of raw oats. I also didn’t have any vanilla essence, so I subbed with deluxe vanilla yogurt instead. Also, (yes mor changes!) I added cinnamon because I love it so much, added a dollop of almond butter, and instead of choc chips I used 3 small choc-covered caramels.
And can I say, one word, AMAZING.
My favorite breakfast recipe ever! It’s great also becasue you an change the flavour to suit your style and it think it would be great with berries etc to.
Also, I couldn’t finish the whole portion so I put the other half in the freezer for a few hours and it was so amazing! Like creamy nutty but smooth yet textured icecream!
Thank you so much Katie!
I highly recommended this recipe to everyone! <33
🙂 🙂
Glad it worked with the weetabix!
I didn’t like it cold, but when I put it in the microwave for a few seconds, the texture changed completely and the chocolate melted and it was pretty good. 🙂
Looks yummy!
I was obsessed with Oreo Os as a child, but when I was living in Korea last year my dormitory served a chocolate cereal and a flake cereal every day and I went through a phase where I got it every morning! 2/3 flake to 1/3 chocolate and it would leave the most amazingg chocolate milk at the end. I’m glad that phase passed quickly though because Korean-style breakfast is delicious and way too time-consuming to do just for myself 🙂 On an oddly related note, Oreo Os have been discontinued everywhere EXCEPT Korea… I should have bought a box while I was there for old time’s sake!
This cereal is delicious! At first I wasn’t sure about the texture, but it grew on me and I really liked it. Two enthusiastic thumbs up! 🙂
this was awesome!! i even made extra and ate it several days later…it got a little mushier, but it was still just as yummy! my only issue is that i can’t decide if i like this better warm or cold! seeing as Sandy has given us a couple early SNOW this year, i will probably be eating it warm!! thank you for the recipe! i also made your sweet potato chili this week… my whole meat-eating family loved it. as i am writing this, i am eating/drinking a healthy vanilla frosty (with blended blueberries and strawberries added)….and i bought all the ingredients to make sloppy lentils later in the week 🙂 thanks for all the great and healthy ideas! you’re the best!
Wow… I made this for breakfast today and it was amazing! Just made another batch for tomorrow so I don’t bother my roommate with the blender… but that’s actually just an excuse to grab a spoonful of it while I made it… Added a few chocolate chips and microwaved to get it melted in, then added a few solid ones broken up into smaller pieces for different textures 🙂 Love the use of tofu! I only had Korean soft tofu on hand but it worked fine.
If you add some cocoa powder and bake it in the oven, it is like getting an enormous brownie all to yourself for breakfast. amazing.
Came by for a different recipe, but since i was here, i thought i’d try this for the kids. I do recall my parents buying lots of cereal and i too loved Honey Smackd and Honeycomb the best. I actually also loved just plain Corn Flakes so i could add my own raisins since real Raisin Bran got sooo soggy. I am one of those strange people who have never ever really cared for chocolate so i never ate chocolatey cereals.
can someone tell me what mori-nu tofu is? can i just buy regular tofu or this some kind of special brand?
google image search mori nu to see what it looks like 🙂