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.
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?
Love these boat meals! Tastiest way to eat oatmeal. I’m going to try making a pineapple upside down cake flavoured one for breakfast tomorrow…
Meant to say boatmeals… Autocorrected.
Love love love them… Getting excited about breakfast again! When you give up wheat breakfast gets difficult on weekday mornings.
Sitting here eating this delicious oatmeal dish for dessert!! Love it!!
hi there! Do you think I can make this ahead of time and just heat it up when I’m ready to eat it? Thanks!
just found your site and love it! My question to you is what are you using for the whip topping look I see on top of you food?
Can’t wait to try all of these.
Thanks
About to bake this right now! I added a pack of PB2 because, let’s face it, chocolate and peanut butter cookie dough boatmeal would rock!
I love these baked oatmeals! I’ve already made the reeses, cinnamon bun and now htis one today. I love them all but my favorite so far is the reeses! I think you should try making a coffee one or mocha and maybe a carrot cake or gingerbread flavor!
I just tried to “invent” a chocolate chip cookie baked oatmeal. It was good but not great, and I thought to myself, “I bet Katie has a recipe for this…” You don’t disappoint. 🙂
I am so making this, with crunchy pb, in my muffin pan! Perfect for a snack on the go or for feeding my always in a hurry sister. I love all these oatmeal variation, I can never get bored now
can you replace maple syrup with honey
I do that all the time. Love it with honey 🙂
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 !