This is your new favorite breakfast.
Or rather, my new favorite breakfast.
This delicious breakfast recipe is super–filling (and keeps you full for a long time), and it’s extremely easy and quick to prepare.
I don’t usually eat the same thing for breakfast more than two days in a row, because there are way too many delicious Healthy Breakfast Recipes out there (pancakes! oatmeal! waffles!). But this one’s so good that it’s all I’ve been craving the last four days.
Pumpkin Bread in a Bowl
(can be gluten-free)
Inspired by Banana Bread Cereal.
- 1/3 c canned pumpkin (or cooked pumpkin or sweet potato puree)
- 3/4 c milk of choice
- 1 cup flake cereal (I like spelt flakes, but bran, corn, etc will work. Some people have even used oatmeal!)
- 1/4 to 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp salt
- sweetener (such as stevia, sugar, or even maple syrup)
- optional: chocolate chips, pecans
Blend all ingredients together. The cereal will have a thin consistency at first, but if you leave it in the fridge (after blending) for even just 10 minutes, it starts to get really thick! I usually make it before I run, and it’s the consistency of thick pudding by the time I return.
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If you’re using the optional pecans or chocolate chips, you can either blend them right in or sprinkle them on top after serving.
Above, swirled with Vegan Cool Whip.
I like to blend things: Any things. All things. When you blend a bunch of ingredients, the individual flavors fuse together, for one amazing new taste. By blending this recipe, you get pumpkin, vanilla, spice, and crunch all in one delicious spoonful. I swear, one of these days I’m going to try blending a pb&j sandwich…
Didn’t get to the fridge! I put coconut in it then sprinkled Milo on top (malted chocolate drink mix available in Australia by Nestlé). Yum!!!
This looks fabulous! I’m so glad my friend, Libbie, routed me here. 🙂
Thanks!
I hope you like it!! 🙂
I used 1/2 cup of Grapenuts in place of the 1 cup of flake cereal and no sweetener and it was delicious… Mmmmm.. Thank you!
Do you think it would still work if it was just mixed together, without the blender? I’m a college student living in a dorm, and I can’t exactly justify buying a blender haha, but this looks delicious 🙂
Sorry, I don’t know. Obviously you wouldn’t get the same texture, but I don’t see why the taste wouldn’t still be good.
Just whipped this up using Count Chocula (sans marshmallows, of course) as the cereal, in attempt to really get into the Halloween spirit… didn’t make much of a difference, but delicious nonetheless!
So excited to try this! Should I cook the flake cereal or just put it in raw?
Put it in raw 🙂
(I use spelt flakes… the kind that come in a cereal box, not the kind that look like raw oats)
If you make the pb&j blend, PLEASE make a huge announcement post or something. I eat pb&j’s after runs and a blended version sounds like awesomeness.
Hi, Katie. I’m new to your site and I’m loving all the recipes you’ve come up with! My husband’s a second shifter and I’m up early so I can’t run the Bullet without waking him up. SOOO I was wondering if the could be mixed up at night and left in the frig til morning. What do you think?
Hmmm… I bet it would! It would get really thick. I should try this, too!
I did try this and it works just fine. It’s kinda addictive, I’ve already made it twice!!! LOL!!! It didn’t seem any thicker left over night than it was after an hour. Time to try your baked oatmeal recipes!
Have you tried storing this? Just wondering if I can make a large portion and eat over the next few days or if it turns funky f it sits to long…
I haven’t… I’d like to try storing it overnight. If you try it before me, let me know if it works!
Oh. Em. Gee. I made a variation of this for breakfast this morning using All Bran cereal instead of flakes and it was SO GOOD!! I can’t wait to make the banana version tomorrow morning! And to think, when my mother-in-law got me a Magic Bullet for Christmas two years ago I thought I’d never use it…