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.
Thank you Thank you Thank you for all your wonderful recipes! I am new to this “lifestyle” and at first found it so hard to eat anything. I’ve enjoyed your recipes SO much! The pumpkin “boatmeal” and the chocolate pumpkin pie brownies are 2 of my favorites! Keep on!
~Sarah
Can this be prepared in the microwave?
Sorry, I haven’t tried.
Hi Katie!
My husband and I recently made the switch to go vegan! We love it and have enjoyed MANY of your recipes even before we knew these were vegan. I’ve been making your baked oatmeal before I do “Insanity” workouts in the morning. I tried steel cut oats this morning and they’re a little crunchy lol. Would you recommend staying with rolled oats? Thanks agin for your inspiration!!!
Jenny
I’ve never tried the recipe with steel-cut, so yes I would recommend rolled oats :).
Oh my goodness, Katie, you’re the Angel of All Thing Delicious!! I just made this for the very first time. First of all, it’s a snap to whip together. I baked mine in a mini bundt pan and it popped out all adorable like a pretty dessert. I put a spoonful of fat free cool whip in the center and dug in. The first bite!!! Crispy, cookie-like crust, ooey gooey chocolatey creamy center!! This is not a breakfast, it’s a molten, decadent dessert! I’m STUFFED, too. Every delectable bite felt like I was indulging on something with far more calories than are actually in it. I’d make this for company, even as a dessert.
Katie, you are my new Best Friend!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for this awesomeness! I can’t wait to try all the other flavors and maybe even experiment with creating some of my own.
Skye
Aw 🙂
Hello my name is Katherine and I am a boatmeal addict. Love, Love, Love boatmeal. I make it once a week and multiply it by about 12 or 16 and put it in muffin tins then freeze it. Muffin size is perfect for my ‘little people’. My husband, children and I eat boatmeal all week. Our current favorite is cranberry, coconut, chocolate chip with applesauce and almond butter.
I made this today for my daughter. I added pecans and made a chocolate sauce made of agave, cocoa powder, and coconut oil for the top. Blueberries on the side, and she thought it was the best breakfast ever! 🙂 I will NEVER stop checking your site!!
Genius, genius, genius!!! Love it & thank you for sharing!
just had this for dinner, so good! omitted the sugar, added extra chocolate chips. i really do love it with mashed banana, and 1 TB of peanut butter. thanks for this great recipe; its a great way to fill my oatmeal cookie cravings 🙂
Finding this recipe (and your blog) is one of the best things that’s happened to me in a long, long time. I’ve been making this cake as a bedtime snack for over a week now, and I’ve yet to get sick of it. Thank you so much for sharing and for all of your amazing recipes. You’re my healthy dessert hero.
Yummmm I made it with banana and it really was delicious! The ony thing was that I baked it in a casserole dish (couldn’t find a ramekin) for 25 min and broiled it for 5 but it still was only cooked on top. Any tips? Even if not it was still delicious!
Cook longer, broil less? Or use a more-shallow dish?