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.
YUM DE DUM DUM!!! I wish I had a Katie Beaming device that could beam you and your food all the way to meeeee in seconds! that would be soooo cool!
Oh man, that WOULD be cool! Especially because I am so afraid of airplanes! 😉
Cookie dough oatmeal cake? Yes please! Anything with the words cookie dough gets my attention…and choc chips, of course 🙂
Anything that doesn’t fill me up? hmmm. Coffee? Sometimes that’s “breakfast” til I have time to sit down for something more real. Like a microwaved oat cake with nut butter that Ive been making and feasting on tons, lately 🙂
I actually do get filled up on cereal, probably because I get the kinds with more fiber in them! But this looks really yummy too 🙂
That sounds good! And yes, the REAL serving size of most cereals would keep me full for about 7 minutes. 😆
Cold breakfast cereals never fill me up either! Unless I eat a reaaaallly big bowl, which is what I used to do. 😉 Your oatmeal bake looks delish!
Cereal usually doesnt feel me up and oddly oatmeal can do the same thing.
Cold cereal doesn’t fill me up either, though I love it dearly. I’ll only eat it when I just need a quick bit of energy to fuel me for a run or a yoga class, after which I’m likely to replenish with a more satiating, oatmeal and nut-butter-filled breakfast.
and for anyone not watching their weight, just make a double serving for an extra large baked oatmeal right?! hehe <3
the foods i never like having for breakfast because they dont fill me up would be "meal replacement bars" or anything overly processed with sugar…also smoothies make me SO HUNGRY afterwards no matter how much i put in them!
xoxo <3
omg and i just remembered the biggest no-no is COLD CEREAL! like many comments above, cold cereal never ever fills me up…and i swear the higher the protein and the higher the fibre, the hungrier i am lol
I’m pretty sure I’m making this for breakfast tomorrow!!! Looks amazing. I don’t get filled up on pancakes or waffles either…sweet, empty carbs. Maybe a little PB would help haha