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.
I made this for my sister and I this morning (mom opted out of the chocolate chips so she had the cinnamon swirl one) and we ALL loved it. I don’t have ramekins so I had to use muffin tins. Because of that, they got deformed when I took them out, but still tasted AMAZING. Super filling and low calorie, which is always a plus. I wake up at 6:30 to make it and I love that it only take a couple minutes to put together and then when it cooks I can rinse off and get dressed. Keeps me full throughout school. Great recipe, love your blog. I gotta get around to buying those ramekins 😛
As a quick question, do you know if there’s anything I can substitute for pumpkin in any recipe? My dad is allergic so sometimes it can be hard to find recipes (since he eats about 3/4 of everything I make, usually in 5 minutes..)
It really depends on the recipe, but sometimes you can sub applesauce, mashed banana, or baby food.
I think this was the first recipe of your’s I made after the chickpea cookie. This might have been a year ago. It tasted great, but it wasn’t in cake form. For some reason I tried again today, and it was perfect! I’m not sure what I did last time, but I probably tried to sub too much. It is so hard for me to follow a recipe exactly, because I love the experimentation aspect, but I usually have the best results when I don’t sub. I guess the best thing to do is make it correctly first, so I know what it is supposed to be like, THEN sub and experiment.
This one is definitely a keeper, as written!!
Sorry to comment again, but have you tried to prepare ahead and bake in the morning? Or do you think the soak mess the oats up?
I’d prepare the dry ahead of time, then just add the liquid in the morning. Or bake it the night before and fridge overnight. Or you can even bake many ahead of time and freeze. They thaw well :).
I definitely do the bake and and freeze! I’ve been making 4 of these on the weekend, freezing, and then pulling out one (actually half since I’m not hungry in the morning) in the morning to have for breakfast during the week. Works great!
Hi Katie, have you ever cooked up some oats and THEN added things like flour, baking soda and agave to make it taste like cookie dough? 😀 I’m weird and I tried that this morning. I cooked the oats and vanilla, and then added ww pastry flour, applesauce, baking soda, and agave 🙂 🙂 it was really good and I wanted some chocolate in it but unfortunately there is no form chocolate whatsoever in my house DX
Take care! -Mia
That sounds yummy!!!
Hi Katie! I just made this, for dessert, and we all loved it. I made enough for 4, but there was enough for 8, so yummy left overs. Thanks for another great recipe!!
Dear Katie,
I tried this just now and absolutely loved it. Cannot still believe that such a simple recipe can taste so good.
Here is what I did:
I had mint chocolate chips, and no vanilla at hand. I rested the dough for 20 minutes. Sprinkled dried coconut flakes on the top before baking and the result was yummy. I was hesitant initially and hence tried with just half cup of oats.
After tasting and finishing almost half of the boatmeal, I prepared the dough for 2 more batches :D. One with the same mint chocolate flavor and another one with coconut flakes, raisins and berry flavored protein powder.
Have been looking for healthy and sugar free breakfast options, this will be one of favorites from now on. It is hard to find truly healthy and simple recipes.
Though this is the first recipe I tried from your blog, I am sure that I am going to love each one of them.
Thank you so much for these great recipes. Wishing you all success in your new career.
Regards,
HP
Made this AM. SO good! So full. Thank you. Can’t believe it took me this long to try it.
Currently in California, my grandpa can’t eat meat so I’m definitely gonna treat him to this!
I found this recipe a few months ago, thanks to Pinterest and I am absolutely addicted! I have it for breakfast at least once a week. I follow weight watchers and it ends up being 8 points, which is kind of high, but I get my healthy oils in for the day. I’ve also subbed the chocolate chips for blueberries and that’s delicious as well! Thank you so much for this recipe!!!
I didn’t heed the warning about how filling this is. I didn’t even make it half way!
I made this this morning and I love it. I didn’t have apple sauce, so I just blended up some apples with a few chunks and it’s great. Anyways thanks for sharing, my morning just got a lot better.