Ooey, gooey, soft, and chewy! These Deep Dish Double Chocolate Breakfast Cookies are the epitome of dessert for breakfast. Chocolatey and decadent, but made with healthy and wholesome ingredients that you can feel good about starting your day with.
A Tuesday sounds like a good day to have cookies for breakfast. Wouldn’t you say?
I mean, every day sounds like a good day to have cookies for breakfast, but Tues-days especially. They don’t have the “go-get-em” fresh start feel of a Monday, and they’re waaaaaay too far away from the weekend to offer any comfort.
Sorry to remind you 😂 But it’s a good argument in the case for having cookies for breakfast.
Then again, I feel like these guys can probably speak for themselves…
Deep dish. Double chocolate. Breakfast cookies… which didn’t actually start out as cookies at all.
They started out as a crazy idea to bake a smoothie. Yes. Bake a smoothie. I figured that most of my oatmeal smoothies were nothing more than runny batters (ew?) anyways, so I took the ingredients for my hot chocolate breakfast smoothie, subtracted some milk, added some baking powder, and voila!
A giant… err… what the heck do I call it?!?
I’m not even going to pretend that I wasn’t seriously considering calling it a “Something, Something Baked Smoothie,” because that’s exactly where my mind went first.
But what the heck is a baked smoothie? And how much more mutually exclusive could two words get? You can’t bake a smoothie. I mean, you can, but then it’s not exactly a smoothie anymore… eh? Eh.
Thank goodness the senses kicked in as soon as I had my first bite…
Ooey. Gooey. Soft. Chewy. Just like a cookie. That’s healthy enough to eat for breakfast. Which also happens to be made with a double dose of chocolate. And in a deep dish.
TL;DR -> Deep dish double chocolate breakfast cookies. Nailed it.
Happy Tuesday 😋 Make it tasty!
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Deep Dish Double Chocolate Breakfast Cookie
- Total Time: 40 mins
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
Ingredients
- 1 cup (80 g) quick oats*
- 1/4 cup (20 g) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup (120 ml) unsweetened almond milk
- 1 medium-size ripe banana (100 g)
- 2 Tbsp (30 ml) maple syrup**
- 2 Tbsp (32 g) nut/seed butter***
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp (20 g) vegan chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F (176°C) and lightly grease 2 individual sized (~16oz./500 ml) ramekins or oven-safe dishes with cooking spray or oil. Set aside.
- Add the oats, cocoa powder, and baking powder to a blender and process on high until the oats have broken down into the consistency of a fine flour, about 10 seconds.
- Add all of the remaining ingredients except for the chocolate chips, and process on high until the dough becomes smooth and creamy, about 20 seconds. Periodically stop and scrape down the sides of your blender, if necessary. Finally, fold in the chocolate chips by hand.
- Divide the dough between the two ramekins and fold in the chocolate chips. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5-10 minutes before enjoying.
Notes
* Make sure to use certified gluten-free oats if you need these to be gluten-free. ** Feel free to sub this with any sweetener you like. Other liquid sweeteners work great, as do regular sugars. *** You can use any nut-butter you have on hand, or use a seed or soy nut butter to make this nut-free. In this case, you also need to replace the almond milk with another type of non-dairy milk.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
Looking for more healthy chocolate breakfast recipes? Try one of these!
Brownie Batter Breakfast Bake
Chocolate Overnight Oatmeal Smoothie
Double Chocolate Greek Yogurt Muffins
Hot Chocolate Breakfast Smoothie
Chocolate Banana Oatmeal Smoothie Bowl
What are your thoughts on using applesauce instead of banana?
I think that would be fine! The texture might be -slightly- different, but I don’t think it should be anything too noticeable.
Yes please! This totally looks like dessert for breakfast, and I love it! Who would skip breakfast if they had these lying around? Pinned it for later!
I had a super random breakfast but very tasty of poached eggs and left over veggie curry and sauerkraut – breakfast of champions!!! But love anything chocolate – cookie- breakfast related so YUM! And just read you news – congrats lovely!!!
COOKIES for breakfast? Yes please!
Oh my word, Amanda this looks amazing!!! I hope you don’t take this the wrong way but I do believe you could make dog poop look good! I have some ripe bananas right now and I’m going to try this!!! Thank you!!!
Yummmm these look delicious! Perfect for those days where you just need a lot of chocolate! Tuesdays are often my least favorite day. There’s still so much of the week ahead and sometimes they feel like a repeat of Monday.
Oh dear gawsh! These pictures should be outlawed! The texture on these baked smoothies are freaking fantabulous! Gosh! Wow! Forget the fork and spoon I say! These cookies make me rethink my papaya breakfast cookies from this morn!
Papaya cookies sound delicious, Shashi! I’d seriously kill for more fruit right now. Summer can’t come soon enough!
I made these just now! I forgot the banana (it’s that kinda morning I guess 🙈) and I was so worried it would lose its cakiness. Nope! It’s sort of between fudgy brownie and cake, and without the sweetness of the banana it has a rich “dark chocolate” taste. Mm… Anyway, nice job knocking it out of the park again, Amanda.
Man these cookies would make any morning better- just thinking about them already makes me feel warm & fuzzy always hits the spot!
Gah WordPress just ate my entire comment!!! Let me try and remember what I wrote:
Man these cookies would make any morning better- just thinking about them already makes me feel warm & fuzzy! Given how warm the temperatures in Mumbai have gotten, yogurt bowls have been my go-to breakfast recently. Today’s bowl rocked some Greek yogurt, raw oats, muesli, peanut butter, cubed apple & of course cinnamon. Seriously though, it just never gets old!
Gah! Hate when WP does that, but thanks for taking the time to rewrite your comment, Khushboo 🙂 And oh man… the Greek yogurt obsession is real!
Chocolate for breakfast, oh yes please! Girl this might be my dinner too!
You know how I feel about breakfast for dinner <3
Wow these look amazing!
Thanks Jess!
Mmm these looks great Amanda! What a great idea to use the smoothie batter – this is defintiely more my kind of way to eat those ingredients 🙂
Least favourite day of the week is Wednesday. I don’t know why but I always feel tired on a Wednesday!
And brekkie today was gf toast and jam, eggs and asparagus! Making the most of that asparagus before autumn kicks in and it’s gone!
You’re more than welcome to come dine with us here! Asparagus is juuuuust coming into season 😉
You know what I first thought of when I saw this picture? Vita muffins! I never had one, but yours looks like a much healthier. Always a fan of chocolate for breakfast. It’s a life goal of mine to try and include it where ever feasible.
I used to really like the chocolate Vita muffins!.. But then blog recipe experiments took over my freezer 😆
I don’t think I have a lease favorite day, because my days off change so each week is different. I think my favorite day to wake up is any day I have off =P This morning I made a microwave banana bread and topped it with peanut butter. Ripe bananas=yummy breakfasts!
Ripe bananas = love of my life. But it’s been next to impossible to find any good ones at the stores lately. All the ones I come across are neon green 😥
Dang! I sat down to eat my breakfast and read blogs this morning and opened this…whhhaaatt?? How could I have already made my breakfast?? This looks like my favorite everything personified (<- just realized that's kind of weird to say about an inanimate object…), which I guess is just yet another way of saying that I like ooey-gooey super-duper chocolate things. 😂 But I really, really need to try this and pronto. What do you think…seems to me it'd make for a perfect dessert. 😋 And if that doesn't work out, there's always breakfast tomorrow. 😍
Oh, and in answer to your question, I totally have to give a plug for what I did have for breakfast this morning (which was deliciously fantastically good, even if it didn’t have chocolate!): http://eatwithinyourmeans.com/vegan-no-bowl-blender-muffins/ I think my least favorite day of the week is Thursday, because even though I usually have a lot more free time, it a lot of times ends up being kind of a nothing-interesting/engaging-to-do type day and puts me in a funk or else v.e.r.y. sleepy. 😖
There’s always breakfast for dinner 😀 Although those muffins that you had look super good too!
wowww this looks so good i cant believe it!
My least favorite day of the week is Monday and this morning I had a fried egg on a GF bagel!
Your creativity in the kitchen is astounding. I am uber impressed. I also think Deep Dish Double Chocolate Cookie sounds way better than Baked Smoothie, You nailed it.
I was thinking it would make good click bait since people would be like… wtf?!
WOOOOOOAH BABY!!! These remind of the deep dish, half-baked pizzookies that I used to get when I visited my aunt in Arizona SO GOOD Except these maaaaay be better since they are DOUBLE chocolate. LOVE.
Honestly? I had the exact same thought about Tuesday earlier today. Wednesday? Meh. Thursday? Yes. Friday? YES!
A baked smoothie?! You’re a genius. Why start from 0 when you have a stock of great recipe bases in your repertoire? Which means we can expect many more baked smoothies/deep dish cookies, right :)?! One for every day of the week. Mmmh. I could become a smoothie fan this way.
It’s my goal in life to bring you over to the dark side somehow 😛
Any excuse to eat chocolate for breakfast! These look amazing and I think I have all the ingredients! Definitely going to try making them soon!
Thanks Michelle! I hope you like them 🙂
AMANDA. WHAT. Drooling over here because these look unreal!!!!!!! Heart eyes for dayzzzz
Girl–you’re on a double-chocolate kick lately!
Eheh. I feel like that’s the #storyofmylife
These are so thick! I could never say no to cookies for breakfast.
That makes two of us 😀
These are making me emotional. Making them asap! I love all the simple ingredients!
I was feeling some pretty strong things towards them myself 😉 I hope you like them, Kate!!
Well this is a rather nifty idea 😉 Brownie-cookie-cake-chocolate-everything you’d want!
Now THAT… is seriously what I should have called it 😆
These look perfect! And I totally would have wanted to name them smoothie cookies too.
Smoothie cookies! Omg that sounds even better
What is the nutritional information? Calories and fat???
Somehow it doesn’t surprise me that you thought to bake a smoothie, lol! But I do think it was a fantastic idea because this looks like the breakfast cookie of my dreams. Soft and chewy with lots of chocolate? I can’t think of a more delicious way to start a Tuesday. 😉
The smoothie obsession is real! I swear… one of the most common things I ask myself is: “I wonder if I could blend that…” 😆
Scrump-diddly-umptious is the only way to describe these…I’ve been eating chocolate cake for breakfast, literally, since I’m experimenting with a GF chocolate cherry cake recipe. Maybe breakfast cookie will assuage the jealous looks of my coworkers…or not 🙂
😆 Gotta love eating recipe experiments for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!
OMG, you are talking my tune and I must make these! And I only have one banana left, which I had planned to eat after my run today, except now I think I must save it for these, because the bananas I will be buying are unlikely to be ripe.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
And I had cookie dough baked oatmeal for breakfast this morning.
!!! Ok, cookie dough baked oatmeal sounds AMAZING. And I seriously hear you on the ripe banana problem! I hope you like them if you try them, Judy!
These would be great anytime! I have all the ingredients on hand. Definitely a delicious breakfast alternative.
you totally read my mind here, all the chocolate for breakfast! This is perfection for breakfast! right now I’m eating a smoothie with chocolate protein powder and chocolate granola on top haha.
Loving the double chocolate goodness in there 😉
Deep dish, cookie, and breakfast. Those three words caught me and now I’m not letting go! Mmm! Chocolate cookies for breakfast. I mean, what gets better! I’m eating protein pancakes which are delicious 🙂 My least favorite day of the week is probably Tuesday. Not much happens and I work so not the best day hahah
I -wish- I could make pancakes for breakfast! But I don’t do so well with the flipping at 6am, so it’s usually pancakes for dinner 😆
Anything with chocolate is a staple for me. These look amazing Amanda.
Thanks Hollie! xo
love it. maybe I will make these later since I just ate breakfast. look so good
Breakfast for lunch? Breakfast for dinner! 😀
I love the idea of a deep dish cookie! You are breaking ground here. Especially since it’s double chocolate and a breakfast cookie. And I was just talking about Tuesdays last week I think. Definitely my least favorite day and it seems like something stressful always comes up. Chocolate helps!
Bah to Tuesdays. But I hope nothing stressful came up for you this week!