New favorite breakfast!!
If you like banana bread, there’s a good chance you’ll fall completely in love with this rich chocolatey breakfast bowl. The entire recipe takes less than 5 minutes to make, and you might already have all of the ingredients!
For more healthy breakfast recipes: Chocolate-Covered Katie: Over 50 Healthy Breakfast Recipes
Spellchecker is trying to convince me that “chocolatey” is not a real word.
Stupid spellchecker. What does it know?
Chocolate Banana Bread in a Bowl
Adapted from Banana Blender Cereal
- 1 peeled banana, as ripe as possible
- 1 cup flake cereal (such as bran or corn flakes)
- scant 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 cup milk of choice
- tiny pinch salt
- 3/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- sweetener of choice, to taste
- optional peanut butter, chocolate chips, walnuts, coconut, etc.
Blend all ingredients thoroughly. Garnish as desired. It will get much thicker if you refrigerate at least 10 minutes before eating. (In the summer months, I like to use a frozen banana.)
View Chocolate Banana Cereal Nutrition Facts
P.S. These pictures were taken with my iphone. 🙂
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Well, that was an awesome breakfast this morning! I added some kale powder and flax meal and used puffed brown rice in place of the bran flakes. Thanks so much for your persistent, playful, healthful recipe “artistry”. I love this blog and we have many recipe favorites, particularly the No-Bake Pumpkin (Butternut) Chocolate Pie. It gets served to guests with great frequency, and rave reviews. I love sharing food with people that surprises them by the healthfulness of the ingredients and the luscious, rich flavors. Good work, Katie!
Thank you so much for making it!
Alright, how did you get such wonderful pictures from your iPhone?? Share your secrets. 😀 Haha.
But seriously, this recipe looks delicious. I’d love to try it.
I actually did photoshoots with both cameras and was surprised to find I liked the iphone ones better!
Oh this just looks so YUM. Note to self: Don’t read chocolatecoveredkatie before bed! Now I need to fix me a snack, this website is delicious! Thanks for all the amazing recipes!
Katie, I just made this, and it is delicious! Feels very naughty, almost like eating chocolate pudding for breakfast. I didn’t have any plain bran flakes, but when I came downstairs this morning, I spotted Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes. Even better! Didn’t need to add any sweetener, the sweetness of these is ridiculous anyway. Thanks for the recipe! 🙂
Hi Katie,
I love following your blog from Australia! Just wanted to ask you a quick question about your yummy recipe regarding cocoa do you mean the baking cocoa or the drinking cocoa?
Thank you!
Both will actually work here!
This is delicious! Super thick and creamy. In the future, on run days, I might try subbing chocolate protein powder for the cocoa.
Wait! Chocolatey is not a real word?!
What kind of people have decided that?
Anyway, this looks delicious! It’s something that looks like you should feel totally guilty about eating it, but you don’t have to! Perfect!
This looks delicious! I love all things banana so I’m sure this will go into my breakfast rotation. My go to breakfast right now is a nice bowl of overnight oats. Usually I make it with strawberries and banana but I rotate the fruit every once and a while. Using peaches because they are in season it is so so good!
You’ve done it again, Katie! This was so tasty, and my favorite part was that I didn’t need to measure anything. The eyeballing-it method worked for me! I think I’m going to nix the cocoa next time (I know, I know, what am I thinking?!?) and replace it with PB so it’s like a cold version of your PB breakfast pudding, which I LOVE!!! For those of you who liked this recipe, you have GOT to try the PB breakfast pudding!!! Soo delish!
Hi Katie! I just wanted to comment on how much i enjoyed this recipe! I nixed the sugar, used dark cocoa powder, and used Special K Pecan cereal – it was wonderful and the perfect single-serving size of banana bread pudding!
I also wanted to comment on your most recent post and the rude comment you got on your eating habits (but I didn’t want to write two comments – lazy, I know!). You handled the accusation with grace <3 As a person in recovery from an eating disorder, I really appreciate all your healthy recipes and your honesty of how you add in the fats and oils but give alternatives. They really help me on days when I'm struggling to eat but know I need to. Knowing I have a place to find healthy recipes with healthy options is really comforting and has been a blessing in my recovery. Don't let the trolls ever stop you from posting pictures and stories of yourself and your lifestyle! Reading your blog we know that you are a healthy person, and you really are a grace to many people.
Looking forward to the next awesome recipe!! I'm secretly hoping for some autumn (pumpkin, anyone?) recipes soon!
Hey katie 🙂
Have you thought of using things like cream of tarter (like in your banana milkshakes) and putting them in this cereal, I bet it’s delicious! 😀 x
Hey there I just wanted to let you know that I have loved your blog for years now! I am a highschooler enrolled in a Food, Nutrition, and Wellness class. I was disappointed when I saw that we were making giant cookie-cakes, fluffy pancakes, and orange Julius, loaded with added sugars and fat. I talked to the teacher about wanting to incorporate healthier recipes into the class and she responded saying it wasn’t in the budget. Then, one day, we had an open-kitchen where we could make whatever recipe we desired. I printed out your cookie dough dip recipe and brought it in. The kids loved it (once they got past the garbanzo beans part) because it tasted like cookie dough, and my teacher loved it because it was cheap, fast, and easy. She loved it so much that she sent the recipe to other highschools home-economics programs and told me that they would be making the very same recipe in their classes. Thank you for allowing me to show my teacher that healthy food doesn’t have to be expensive and can be just as delicious!
I hardly ever comment but I just put this in the fridge to thicken up and tried a lil taste of it and I am BEYOND EXCITED to eat this for dinner while watching Big Brother (obsessed!). And, yes I said dinner! 😉 I will admit I am not usually a fan of blending up bananas (love bananas on their own though) but I thought how can I go wrong with chocolate and bananas? And I added 3 tbsp of PB2 Peanut butter and 1 tbsp of agave as my sweetener. Ahhhhh!!! Thank you CCK for allowing me to be healthy and animal friendly all while enjoying deliciousness!
My favorite summe breakfast has been an almond butter and jelly sammich! Lame, but it seriously brings such happiness to my face once I get to start munching. If I eat the combination in the morning, it’s guaranteed to be a good day for EVERYBODY.
I made this for breakfast this morning! It was completely incredible and so filling, I already want to make it again tomorrow!
I tried this this morning and I love it! How on earth did you come up with this? I would have never thought to put cereal in a blender! YUM YUM YUM!!! Thanks for another great recipe!!!