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 literally eat oatmeal for breakfast every single day. I’ve convinced myself that it’s the only thing that will actually fill me up lol. All of your oatmeal recipes have helped keep my breakfasts interesting :). Thanks Katie!
These look so good! I’m always looking for new twists on breakfast (it seems to get boring and repetitive pretty quickly). I’m new to the blogging world although I’ve been on pinterest (and obsessed) for a while. So of course I’m trying to surf around and see what the other types of blogs that are big hits are like. And it’s been fun!
I’m definitely going to make some of these recipes!
thanks
This was so delicious!! Thankyou for this amazing recipe katie! You’ve honestly been a huge influence for me on my journey to becoming a healthier and happier person:) your recipes have changed my life!
Just a small query that I’d really appreciate an answer to. How is this boatmeal recipe only 180 calories if 50g of oats is around 190? (Without the other ingredients) Perhaps I’m using the wrong calorie counter?
I made this today and was in heaven!! Thank you!!
hi katie :)could you please answer the above question when you get time, would be much appreciated !
Katie~ You are such an amazing cook! This oatmeal was delicious, and I am scraping the bowl as I type. I follow your blog and have tried( and LOVED!) many of your recipes. When will your cookbook come out? I cannot wait to have it. Your recipes are so yummy, keep up the great work!
I’m cookin’ this up in the oven right now, can’t wait to try it! 12 more minutes left! :p
This recipe looks great! There’s one problem though: I don’t have applesauce OR bananas! Is there another substitute I can use or do I have to just *sigh* drive back to the store?
I have been making this recipe (as well as the chocolate peanut butter baked oatmeal) for months now. Love them! I usually make a 4x batch, bake them in muffin cups and freeze. I will reheat two “muffins” for breakfast during the week. Over the weekend I was making a batch and forgot to add the optional oil (which I always add). I remembered while they were in the oven! Anyways, it turns out that I don’t even notice it missing! Saves me some calories and I don’t lose the taste 🙂 I have a big sweet tooth and honey works better for me as a sweetener than stevia. Just personal preference.
Hey Katie,
I eat this every morning. Literally. Anyways, I am trying some new recipes for boatmeal, and I was wondering if you could give me a list of all of your boatmeal blogs? Thanks
Hi 🙂
Here is a link to all of my oatmeal recipes https://lett-trim.today/category/oatmeal-recipes/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Made this with stevia, coconut milk (not the canned version!), and added a tablespoon of peanut butter for the extra calories (and because peanut butter to me is chocolate to you!). I used raw cacao nibs as the chocolate, so unfortunately it wasn’t warm melted chocolate! The turn out still was delicious though 🙂
However, it was a bit dry, so I topped it with (lots…