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?!
What could you substitute for the tofu or yoghurt? i’ve just seen this and HAVE to make it!! But unfortunately the shops are closed!!
How come your portion looks so much and mine is so small??
I want the one of your picture! ;p
I made this recipe for the first time this morning and subbed the bran cereal for 1/2 C. Old fashioned oats and 1 1/2 Tbsp. Ground flax and added 1/2 Tbsp. Earth Balance Coconut Peanut Butter and let me tell you oh my god! It tasted like a peanut butter cup cookie dough blizzard in cereal form. When I was growing up my favorite cereal was Trix mmmm Trix Cereal would be good. Im going to work on that tomorrow. 🙂
I love this recipe! I make it almost every morning! This morning I put my own spin on this recipe and made it into a vanilla almond chai breakfast cereal and it was amazing! All I did was boil the unsweetened vanilla almond milk I use and let a chai tea bag steep in it for around three minutes. I also added chai spices (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, allspice, and ginger) to the nonfat vanilla greek yogurt I used instead of tofu. I followed the rest of the recipe as instructed and what resulted was an almost mousse like texture with a lovely chai flavor that was not too overpowering. Soooo good.
I can’t believe there’s like a billion replies to this post lol well ok, “cookie dough for breakfast…” maybe I can. For weeks and weeks when I was working bakery hours i.e 6am/7am shifts I used to get a lift with my dad into the next city which was about an hour drive. The night before I would make my breakfast: branflakes+any other cereal hanging around+soymilk+raisins+nuts+mini chocolate chips, I let it sit in the fridge overnight so the cereal would absorb all the milky goodness, in the morning I would add sliced banana, and eat it in the truck on th way to work – *yums*!
Whaaat Count Chocula was my favorite cereal! Cereal is my favorite food though, so I need to try this recipe soon!
I found this blog a couple weeks ago and was thrilled!!! I tried to make the breakfast cookie dough oatmeal but it turned out like sweet cereal in milk. I used Special K original cereal and it turned out really thin and soggy. Did i use the wrong kind of cereal or what? I don’t want to say anything bad about this blog, but I would like to know why it turned out like that!
Does this work if you leave it in the fridge overnight? Like overnight oatmeal style haha… Or is that too long?
I made this recipe with cornflakes this morning. I let it set in the fridge for 10 minutes and microwaved it for over a minute and got the result that look reminiscent to yours. it tasted a bit like cookie dough with almond. the choc chips definitely helped!! I also added some cocoa. interesting and tasty recipe. *** 1/2 stars from me
My parents never bought me and my sister the really sugary cereal. We ate OrganicKids or the Trader Joe’s brand. But I’ve ALWAYS loved Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I don’t like chocolate flavored stuff.
I would just like to say that I used rice crispies with soy yogurt and it worked well!
Wow an amazing blog you have! I just found it looking at a danish blog, and thank god I did! Can’t wait to try some of your delicious recipes 🙂 <3
can I let this sit over night so I can enjoy a no fuss morning meal?
This is yummy and a very filling breakfast! I usually have to tear myself away from the cereal box, but I didn’t actually even finish this bowl because I was satisfied with a full tummy. Very creative recipe, Katie!
Just made this for breakfast today, and I have to say the texture is very much like cookie dough! I let mine sit overnight. used unsweetened vanilla almond milk, Siggi’s Icelandic skyr strawberry flavor, and PB company’s dark chocolate dreams peanut butter. It was very good with chocolate chips in it, but the bites without chocolate chips did just kinda taste like soggy cereal. If I make this again I’ll use regular peanut butter and double the amount, and definitely add more chocolate chips! Curious about trying other kinds of cereal too. Wonder if Quaker oatmeal squares would blend as well as corn flakes? 😀
This was sooooo amazing! i blended the chips and added whole, left overnight, microwaved briefly then sprinkled a few more chips on top! OMG heaven in a bowl!!! Thanks katie
I doubled the recipe. I used kashi 7 grain flakes , and cartoned flaxmilk that is already lightly sweetened and vanilla flavored. So I left out the vanilla. I used 1T steva powder and omitted the salt and added about 1T chia seeds. Used vitamix and piured into 2 bowls and sprinkled with raisins and choc chips. Sit in fridge for about 5 minutes. This was so good! And so filling! Only change I will make next time is perhaps add a bit of cinnamon. Thanks!!