Oatmeal Cake… for One!
It’s like eating a giant oatmeal cookie, all by yourself!
You might worry that oatmeal cake won’t keep you full like a big bowl of hot oats, but guess what: This cake is so dense and so filling!
For Thanksgiving, I posted this recipe: Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal.
Afterwards, I made a mental note to try out other flavor variations. And since St. Patrick’s Day is not Thanksgiving (What? Really?), yesterday was the perfect time to try the following:
With St. Paddy recipes zooming through my mind, thoughts of boatmeal crashed into thoughts of Irish Soda Bread. Thus, the birth of Irish Soda Boatmeal! (Boatmeal = baked oatmeal.)
“Irish Soda” Oatmeal Cake
(Single-Serving!)
- 1/2 cup oats (50g)
- sweetener, such as 1 and 1/2T agave or 1 pack stevia (I omitted, but I’ve cautioned y’all before about my lack of sweet tooth.)
- 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce (50-60g)
- 1/4 cup milk, creamer, juice, or water (I used 60g water)
- heaping 1/16th tsp salt (or less, if you add vegan butter)
- a bit over 1/8 tsp baking soda (This is just for the “Irish soda” flavor)
- handful raisins (I used 1T)
- Optional: 1/4 tsp caraway seeds (I did use them.)
- Unless you enjoy the taste of fat-free baked goods, you can add 1-2T vegan butter (or oil or even nut butter!). If you use oil, scale liquid back to 3T.
Preheat oven to 385 degrees. Combine dry ingredients, then add wet. Pour into a small baking pan, loaf pan, or 1-cup ramekin. Or you can use two 1/2-cup ramekins for baby oatmeal cakes.
Cook for 20 minutes, or until firm. Finally, set your oven to “high broil” for 3 more minutes, or until desired crispy-ness is reached (or simply just bake longer, but broiling gives it a nice crust).
I also have a non-baked version of Irish Soda Oats, but I don’t think I’ll have time to post it before St. Patrick’s Day. So if you want it beforehand, just let me know in the comment section and I’ll give you a quick outline of the recipe.
Pancakes, cookies, granola…
Do you ever eat oats in ways other than hot cereal?
If you like baked oatmeal, be sure to check out: Oatmeal Cake Flavors.
I love oatmeal so much that I will eat it up to 3 times a day 🙂 For snack I will eat it raw out of the cylinder and breakfast I will make apple cinnamon hot oatmeal. If I eat it for lunch, I will add soy peanut butter, and preserves to plain oatmeal and it tastes like pb and j 🙂
Amazing! I used cinnamon raisin peanut butter instead of oil, dates instead of raisins, brown sugar for the sweetener, and did add the caraway seeds. I was unsure of how the caraway seeds were going to fit in with the oatmeal, but the flavor of the oatmeal was amazing with them. They added a whole new dimension to the dish. Love this recipe!!!!!!!!
This was my St. Patty’s Day Dessert, and it was SO yummy!! Thank you for sharing all your wonderful recipes!! Look forward to more to come! 🙂
This is one of your best breakfast recipes, in my opinion! I’ve made it almost every day this week! If I’m craving sugar, I add a tablespoon of your Better than Nutella and I replace raisins with chocolate chips. Thank you Katie!
My wife and I love these recipes, especially the baked oatmeal; I’m always looking for new ways to dress this up.
Quick question: what type of oats do you use? Steel-cut, quick-cooking, basic rolled? lf I use a different kind, it will change the consistency and cook time. Any hints?
I use rolled (basic quaker). Sorry, I never know how a substitution will work unless I try!
Excellent, thank you! We can’t wait to try these! I always like to try a recipe the way it’s written once, then I’ll play with ingredients.
So eating this right now….I added half a granny smith apple and some cinnamon…sooooo good!!!
Hello every one great site.too much temptations. I have a question, what does the letter T stands for on most recepies. Thanks
tablespoon 🙂
Afraid my parents won’t let me do the vegan lifestyle. So I settled fOr vegetarian. And I too jog in the morning(note I said jog. I can’t really run lol) but do u run everyday? Because I’ve been jogging for around 3 weeks straightish and I’ve got runner knee now… But that’s not what I wanted to talk about. I was going to ask you if I could use muesli instead of oats. I have trader joes fat free blueberry muesli and I’m cookig my boat as we speak. I’ll tell ya if it worked out. Most of it is oats anyway. It’s not really a cereal I enjoyed cold. I’ve always cooked it like oatmeal do I figured Id give it a go:)
Nope, definitely not every day. More like every other day to sometimes 5 days a week.
I used to eat dry museli a lot when I was in high school. I loved a certain brand, but when we moved away from China I stopped eating it because I couldn’t find it in the US :(. I guess I should look for another brand… that old one was so good!
I made this just now, and while it tastes super delicious, mine fell apart. I baked it in a ramekin, didn’t grease the ramekin though, and when I went to flip it out, only half came out. I must have done something since everyone else’s seemed to work : (. I used rolled oats. Maybe I didn’t bake it long enough? As far as I know I followed the recipe as written. I don’t *think* I forgot anything. I would LOVE to figure out what I did, these would make a GREAT post workout snack.
Did you let it cool before trying to remove it?
Also, it’s important to grease first ;).
Let it cool? Are you kidding? It smelled SO good I pulled it out of the oven, tried to bash it out of the ungreased (oops) ramekin and dug in. HAHAHA! Okay, trial number two will happen soon with a greased ramekin and time to cool. I wasn’t too upset since it tasted super yum, but I’d love to have the proper portable version to take to the gym :D. Thanks for your awesome recipes! (and help with my simple mindedness)
loved it! i absolutely hate the texture of traditionally cooked oatmeal, so this (and the other recipes) will be put to good use in my kitchen! 🙂