Chocolate oatmeal?! Is there really such a thing?
Oh my goodness, yes! In just 5 minutes, you can make this decadent-yet-good-for-you chocolate oatmeal for one.
It’s like dessert for breakfast!
I don’t let chance dictate whether my day gets off to a good start. I’d rather make sure it’ll be a good day… by consuming chocolate first thing.
Sometimes, it’s in the form of my Chocolate Banana Bread.
Or this ultra creamy Vegan Chocolate Mousse.
But often, it simply means mixing a spoonful of chocolate peanut butter into my morning oatmeal, or cutting a big hunk off a 100% chocolate bar to eat on the side of whatever breakfast I might be having.
It’s not possible to eat chocolate and frown at the same time.
Really, it’s not. Try it!
Am I wrong? Can you do it?
Well, then at least I got you to eat some chocolate!
What’s your favorite way to eat oatmeal?
Is there a specific way you always prepare it?
Or maybe you don’t like oatmeal at all?
For inspiration, here are some of my favorites:
Over 50 Healthy Oatmeal Recipes
Chocolate Oatmeal Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 3/4 cup milk of choice
- 1 overripe banana (here's a banana-free version)
- 1 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- sweetener of choice, as desired
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients and cook, uncovered, over medium-high heat for 5-7 minutes. When it starts to bubble, stir occasionally. Sweeten as desired. You can also make this up the night before if you wish.View Nutrition Facts
Notes
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who doesn’t like banana’s??? thats just… BANANAS. tee hee.
i could seriously turn into a banana i eat so many of them.
and i love making chocolate oats. adding some chocolate protein powder always does the trick too. sometimes i go the unhealthy way and add torani sugar free chocolate syrup, but that does have artificial sweeteners in it, so i know some people don’t like to go that route, but it’s pretty tasty so once in awhile i’ll do it. that aspartame hasn’t killed me off yet 😉
My crazy sister, that’s who! She hates them. I have a theory that it was a survival mechanism when she was little; she HAD to start hating them because I would always eat them all and there’d be none left for her… anyway, it’s just a thought ;).
Some of us are allergic to bananas. It’s a sad life. 🙁
I justtt started liking oatmeal again. I had about a year hiatus because it wouldn’t settle well in my stomach and left me feeling more hungry and jittery. But then I discovered steel cut oats and they work out really well for me! They take longer to make but its worth it for me. I actually made some at night and reheated them in the morning, poured them over some plain kefir in a mason jar and stirred in some butter and maple syrup and had oats on the go as I drove to work.
Chocolate is definitely a great way to start the day!
Ohh chocolate would be an amazing way to start the day!! And thank you for including a version without banana… I”m one of those crazies who just doesn’t like it, but it’s so big in the blog world! And I like oats all different ways but am especially a fan of steel cut oats!
This looks perfect for my 6 y/o who has been refusing to eat breakfast before school. There’s no way he’ll shoot down chocolate oatmeal!
I’m a rolled oats girl, lately with some pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice, chia and a drizzle of maple syrup. Autumn in a bowl. Yum.
Haha that was the trick my mom used on me, to get me to drink milk (which I loathed!). I would only drink it if it were chocolate!
I do believe chocolate solves all problems. He also bought your chocolate peanut butter babies as a legit dessert and didn’t even call me out on it being a “healthy” one, so thanks for that too!
It’s always a good day when it starts with chocolate, agreed. My husband loves making chocolate oatmeal too, and his recipe is identical to yours, plus some maple syrup or sugar! We’re rolled oats fans, mostly because we haven’t tried steel-cut oats yet. I’ll occasionally make oat bran for breakfast, or ‘boatmeal’ in whatever flavour combination I’m craving at the moment – yummy! All hail oatmeal!
PS – I only just now learnt about the fires in Texas! (Yes, I live under a rock.) Do you live near the affected area? I hope everyone you know is okay.
Luckily (for us), we weren’t too close. But it was really horrible… Texas needs rain so badly, and a few weeks ago my aunt’s school in NY was closed due to flooding. It’s a cruel irony.
My favorite way to eat oats is just quick and easy from the stove. Water+oats+toppings. I let the toppings do the talking 😉
I’m very particular about my oatmeal! It has to be SUPER thick. As in I should be able to pick it up with my fingers thick. When I make it overnight I mix everything together and push it off to one side of the bowl so that in the morning I have room for my sides.
I make a pretty delicious spiced vanilla chai bowl of overnight oats. You combine almond milk, a little chai concentrate, and actual loose-leaf vanilla tea in a bowl and let the oatmeal soak it in overnight! Yum!
Also, as someone who makes an oatmeal very similar to this, I’d like to suggest adding in unsweetened (or sweetened, if you like that kind of stuff) chocolate almond milk. It takes the chocolate flavors to an even higher level!
Both those ideas sound SO good! I’ll try the chocolate one for sure. Thanks, Katherine :).
I eat the Quaker packet stuff because I’m a heathen.
Say what you will, but they do an absolutely bitchin’ Honey and Almond.
😀
Hahaha!
Now that you mention it, I do seem to remember liking their raisin-date one when I was little… or maybe it was maple? All I know is, I did NOT like the dinosaur egg one LOL!
Dinosaur egg porridge??! 🙂
Yup! I think they still make it! It’s a Quaker instant oat packet for kids.
I think I need it… 🙂
Overnight oats are my fave 🙂
The pics with the pouring nondairy milk are so cool. Definitely shows motion and leads the eye to that tasty bowl of goodness.
Some of your readers don’t like bananas? I can’t imagine not liking bananas.
I do the chocolate thing a lot with oatmeal. Want to take it to the top?!?! ——-then put on a few mini marshmallows & a graham cracker…. INSTANT SMORE!!! Talk about a way to start off the day! 🙂
This is not related to oatmeal, but have you ever posted a recipe for cinammon rolls? And if not, could you at some point?? I know Ikea cinammon rolls are only like a dollar, but I’m guessing they’re cheap money-wise but not at all cheap calorie-wise. Thanks!
The only one I have posted at the moment is my cinnamon roll baked oatmeal: https://lett-trim.today/2011/09/09/cinnamon-roll-baked-oatmeal/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
I am working on a yeast-free cinnamon roll, though… the only problem is that I am simultaneously working on so many other recipes that it keeps getting pushed back! I’ve done two trials, and the recipe is promising but not yet perfect!
LOVE oatmeal!! I love all kinds, honestly. I like it plain, or with some pb/j, fresh blueberries, your banana bread in a bowl… I honestly eat oatmeal every single day!
Chocolate banana oatmeal is probably my fave way of eating oat. When strawberries or raspberries are in season, they also make a nice addition 🙂