This cookie dough oatmeal is like eating a warm chocolate chip cookie, with gooey, melted chocolate in every delicious bite!
A variation of the popular Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal.
And now you’ll be wanting a recipe, yes?
Cookie Dough Baked Oatmeal
(Serves One!)
- 1/2 cup rolled oats (50g)
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- sweetener, such as 1 1/2 tbsp maple syrup or 1 to 1 1/2 packs stevia (I omitted, but I’ve cautioned you before about my lack of sweet tooth.)
- 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce (60g) (Or sub banana… it’s awesome this way!)
- 1/4 cup milk of choice, creamer, juice, or water
- 1/8 tsp salt
- Handful of chocolate chips (and a few for the top, too!)
- Optional: unless you like the taste of fat-free baking, add 1 tbsp oil, buttery spread, or nut butter (If oil, scale the milk back a little)
- Optional: 1/4 to 1/2 tsp cinnamon (If you like cinnamon in chocolate chip cookies)
Preheat oven to 380 degrees. Combine dry ingredients, then mix in wet. Pour into a small baking pan, loaf pan, or 1-cup ramekin (or, for mini boats, two 1/2-cup ramekins). Cook for 20 minutes, or more until it’s firm. Finally, set your oven to “high broil” for 3-5 more minutes (or simply just bake longer, but broiling gives it a nice crust). Don’t forget to spray your ramekins first if you want your cakes to pop out.
See the following link for Nutritional Information.
If you’re like me and are not trying to lose weight, I definitely recommend including the optional nut butter or oil in the recipe for more calories, because this oatmeal cake really fills you up!
Are there any breakfast foods that don’t fill you up?
I tend to steer clear of cold cereal, because whenever I eat it for breakfast, I’m hungry an hour later! Same thing with waffles or pancakes. In the case of pancakes, I’ll often eat them for snack instead of as breakfast.
Or with something filling, like a Whipped Cream Bowl.
This was AMAZING! It made a pretty big serving size too, and definitely filled me up! This is definitely going to be a new breakfast staple for me!
I love cold cereal but it’s not filling at all! And mostly loaded with sugar. That being said, this oatmeal is DELICIOUS! Perfect for this rainy, freezing cold Sunday. My kids INHALED it.
I used 1T agave nectar for the sweetener, 1t chocolate chips and 1t peanut butter. Equalled out to 8 Weight Watchers points if anyone’s counting. I usually burn a lot of points for breakfast so this is fine for me.
My kids are always begging me to buy instant oatmeal for them but it’s so sugary I can’t bring myself to do it. They unanimously voted that they’d rather have boatmeal! YAY!
I keep expecting to run into something I don’t like on your site but you keep kicking butt. Thank you!
Wow, that’s a huge compliment that they’d take it over instant oatmeal! That makes me feel so honored!
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Can you use quick oats in this recipe (and the volumptous oatmeal trick)? That’s what I have on hand right now. Love your recipes…and that you include the nutritional info so I can track my points/calories. Thanks!!!!
Sorry, I’m not sure.
This IS delicious!! I’m actually eating it right now and it’s amazing! I absolutely love all of your recipes CCK. I had your volume oatmeal the other day and was full for hours! Also, your banana trick is probably the best tip ever 🙂
I’m wondering if there’s a way to puff up the volume on the boatmeal without adding too many more calories? Or if you could make your volume oatmeal into a boatmeal? I don’t really understand the science of baking (yet :)) and looove oatmeal any way I can have it. You’ve colored my oatmeal world! Thanks for your great recipes!
PS: Your volume ice cream is a life changer! Best way to spend 40 calories ever.
Sorry, I don’t know.
Can you pre-mix this in the evening as one of those “overnight oats” kind of recipes and would it still be good?
Sorry, I don’t know. But you can freeze it after baking :).
I have to admit, I was skeptical about this tasting like a warm chocolate chip cookie. I thought there was no way you could make oatmeal taste so good! But holy cow this was yummy! Breakfast has never been so healthfully delicious. Also, I used a mini bundt pan, and I thought it was going to be SO CUTE coming out, and then it fell apart in a little mess on my plate. A delicious mess though 😀
I definitely had doubts that this would taste like a cookie. Looking at the recipe I thought, “This is just oatmeal with chocolate chips. What’s gonna be so special about it?”. So I made one, tried it, fell into an all-consuming obsession and proceeded to make 2 more for my mom and me! The textures in this thing are divine: gooey chocolate chips, chewy oaty center, and a delicious crust! Oh my gawww!!!!! Well done Katie. Well done.
Aww lol I’m so glad you liked it!!
just wanted to say thank you!! my daughter won’t eat/even try traditionally cooked oatmeal, I think because of it’s texture/consistency. tried your recipe and she LOVES it! gobbles it down and looks for more… thanks katie!
awww 🙂 🙂
I just made it, and this was the perfect fix for my cookie craving. I am so full it’s not even funny! I would love some ideas on other things to put in the boatmeal.
I just found your site through pinterest and so happy I did! I made this cookie dough boatmeal for a quick dessert last night for my husband and I to share and LOVED it! Even he liked and, and he ‘hates oatmeal’. How can anyone hate oatmeal?! It tried the pumpkin bread oatmeal this morning and it was also delicious, keep the oatmeal love coming!!!