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.
Cereal and granola totally don’t fill me up – I need a little more fiber and volume in the morning! Smoothies normally made don’t fill me up either, but lately I’ve been using nut milks, more banana, spinach and adding psyllium husk to bulk them up a bit – the psyllium husk totally helps satiate!
I agree – pancakes are generally more of a snack for me on the weekends (if I ever eat them). They just don’t quite seem like an appropriate breakfast food to me for some reason. …and I definitely prefer savory to sweet in the am. I’ll take some salty oatmeal or a tofu scramble any day!
I just made your boatmeal today and it was amazing!!! Gave you all the credit in my post 😀 Thanks for a great one
Katie, I LOVE YOU!!!! You make the BEST foods!!! No wonder you are the best blog out here! 😀
xoxoxo
Kathleen
not one breakfast food fills me up on its own…..I always have to combine foods! Like oatmeal and a green smoothie, english muffins with yogurt and fruit, or overnight oats with banana softserve+ granola and juice.
I definitely need to remember about this awesomeness when I’m don’t have work or school in the morning so I can make this… it just looks and sounds so good! And coming from the girl who made the pizzert, I know it’s pro. 😉
Would this recipe work with 1/2 a banana mashed instead of a 1/4 cup applesauce?
Also, even though i’m not counting calories I don’t think that 200 is accurate because 1/2 cup of oats is already 150, plus applesauce and the other ingredients it seems like it would be over 200.
Lorin, yes the calorie-count is accurate (See the “nutritional info” link for more specific numbers.) The oats, applesauce, and vanilla extract are the only numbers you add up, because the nut butter is optional. So 150 plus about 30 plus maybe 10 is actually less than 200.
As for banana… if you try it, please let me know how it works. I’d be very interested to know (but I think it would work fine).
I tried it with banana and it did work. I saved a little bit of the banana to put on the top. The banana adds a natural sweetness to it, although I did add 1/4 tsp brown sugar. I realized that I have made these before because I used your original boatmeal recipe and then just added chocolate chips for fun. I don’t have a ramekin, so I just use a muffin tin, still delish!
How does this heat back up? (or does it taste ok cold?) And what about making multi-batches and freezing? Just asking because I just can’t drag myself out of bed early enough to make much of anything for breakfast, so I’ve been looking for options that can be made ahead…
I’m weird and actually like most of the flavors cold from the fridge… but with the banana bread flavor, I really like it best re-heated in the microwave for 40-ish seconds. I almost always make them up the day before. And I haven’t tried freezing, but others have left comments saying it works well. I’ve been meaning to try the multi-batch thing (i.e. in a bigger pan, then cutting into squares). If you try it before me, let me know how it works!
If you’re interested in seeing my attempt:
http://themalikwhey.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/if-i-had-a-boatmeal/
xxx
What do I bake this oatmeal in? and where do I get it?
You can use any oven-safe dish. I use either a mini loaf pan or a 1-cup ramekin or two 1/2-cup ramekins.
So I just took a stab at making this…and OMG I’m pretty sure I melted, recongealed, ate another bite, and melted again. I didn’t make them vegan (sorry!) but rather sort of just used what I had on hand. I also put the batter into greased muffin tins instead of a loaf pan, and they came out sort of like what would happen if oat banana muffins and chocolate chip cookies had a baby! I topped it off with a tiny scoop of vanilla ice cream, mixed a dollop of peanut butter and Nutella together, and microwaved it till it was smooth, then drizzled it over the ice cream. Holy *#(*#*$&#$& I’m in love. You are totally amazing! Of course my version is probably not as healthy as yours, with the ice cream and all, but it made the perfect after dinner snack that didn’t make me feel huge! Keep up the awesome recipes, girl. You’ve got a loyal follower now!
~Laura
Awwwwwwwwww times a million! Laura, this comment made me smile so much! And good call on the ice cream. I definitely think it sounds like a good addition for snacktime… or heck, even breakfast. I eat chocolate bars at breakfast time, so I can’t judge ;).