Yesterday’s snack:
Two mini boatmeal cakes topped with cinnamon swirl peanut butter!
Recipe: Baked Oatmeal Cake For One
Times the above recipe by two, and you’ll get my snack. Two oatmeal cakes are better than one, right? For the miniatures, all I did differently was use two 1/2-cup ramekins (any oven-safe dish will do) in place of one big dish. The result was two “muffin-sized” oatmeal cakes. This particular flavor was Apple-Cinnamon:
Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cakes
(makes 2 muffin-sized cakes)
- 1/2 cup rolled oats (50g)
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 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)
- 3 tbsp unsweetened applesauce (60g)
- 1-2 tbsp chopped apple
- 1/4 cup milk of choice or juice or water (decrease to 3 tbsp if adding the optional oil)
- heaping 1/16th tsp salt
- Optional for richness: 1 tbsp oil or nut butter of choice
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine raw oats, spices, applesauce, apple, and liquid. Pour into a small baking pan, loaf pan, 1-cup ramekin, or two 1/2-cup ramekins. Cook for 15-20 minutes, or more until it’s firm. Finally, set your oven to “high broil” for 3 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 original post for Baked Oatmeal Cake Nutrition Facts.
You could use coconut butter or Healthy Cream Cheese Icing, but I expanded my foodie horizons and tried something new.
Next up in the boatmeal world? I really must try carrot cake. And then maybe gingerbread. Or peanut butter banana, like many of you suggested.
Something that made me smile this weekend, was one of my coworkers looked me dead in the eye and was like, “What’s your favorite vegetable?” with the most deadpan, serious look on their face, after I told them I was vegan. They thought since I was vegan, I must only eat vegetables LOL!!! Now that is someone who SERIOUSLY needs to come visit your website!
Not that I wouldn’t like to have a day where I could reduce my diet to that kind of health though! But really now, in order to get some converts, to save the world, I think I have to show people there are TONS of yummy, devilish options that are vegan and just as tasty too.
Also, I have a peanut butter problem lol. I have never tried coconut butter, but when I have a jar, it goes in a couple of days. I use it as toppings for EVERYTHING! I love it so much. It works as a great base to make a chocolate frosting too, especially if you use the vanilla peanut butter and co flavor and mix it with cocoa powder. My goodness, my life was scary when those two ingredients were involved! LOL I think I was having a relationship with my kitchen.
Everything I eat is vegan (or god I hope so. I can’t say there weren’t a couple of accidents in the recent past 🙁 but they were unintentional), so yes, I have eaten vegan lately! 🙂
Mmm I never liked the White chocolate pb… probably because it wasn’t chocolate! So now I might have to buy another one and try your idea lol!
Just had a vegan meal of leftovers: brussels sprouts, butternut squash, and soy sausage!
This weekend I had a lovely lunch with a good friend so there was lots of smiling and laughing. For Hug-Something-Vegan Month I’m going to bake some cookies in a few days and upload them to my blog. I’m considering going vegan (have been for sometime and I only have the occasional ice cream anyway so I figure, why not?), this could the prefect way to start.
Ooooh Claire, I’m so excited to see what kind of cookies you make :). Send me some through email, ‘kay? 😉
They seem too yummy . They are so cute 🙂
amazing ! thanks for sharing the recipe !
and thanks for follow me too on twitter 🙂
Hehe thanks for adding me! 🙂
I eat a 90% vegan every day, so I think I’ll just hug myself 😀
….but not my dinner. i’m having soup 😉
Hey Katie:)
Just letting you know I think you are gorgeous and I LOVE your recipe collection 🙂
And dont worry about your lack of sweet tooth., I’m the same- I can eat straight coco by itself!
Just a question though, I cant find applesauce ANYWHERE, what can I replace it with?? Maybe eggwhites or something???
Thanks alot:)
x
Oh wow, thank you SO much!! As for the applesauce, you can sub mashed banana, canned pumpkin, or even sweet potato! 🙂 Just use the same amount.
I just made one of the oatmeal cakes and it was delicious! So moist and yummy! Thanks for the recipe xx
Awww Thank YOU for trying it!! 🙂
I’m baking one of these for lunch right now! It’s going into an almost-empty jar of peanut butter (so I can scrape the bottom, hehe) with some banana chunks and a drizzle of maple syrup – yummmm 🙂
Ooh I hope you liked it!! 🙂 🙂
I made your Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cakes over the weekend. We were headed out of town, leaving very early in the morning. So I made these the night before, in a muffin tin, for us to have for breakfast. Delicious, healthy, and easy to eat in the car! Thanks for another great recipe.