This Oatmeal Cookie Dough Breakfast Bake tastes like eating dessert for breakfast! Dessert that’s made without flour, butter, or refined sugar, and just so happens to be vegan and gluten-free as well!
It’s no secret that I love breakfast. I’d go as far as to say that the reason I can’t seem to sleep in past 5 AM comes down to the fact that my brain can’t wait to dig in to whatever deliciousness I have planned for that day — like a little girl waking her parents up on Christmas morning. There are days where I swear the only thing that gets me out of my warm and cozy bed is the promise of a warm and cozy bowl of oatmeal; or in some cases, a warm and cozy bowl of [chocolate chip] oatmeal cookie dough…
Cookies for breakfast? You betcha! Or cookie dough, anyways, since you guys know I’m not a huge fan of scooping out individual little cookies… or having a breakfast-making process that’s overly involved… which is why I can’t do pancakes in the morning… but I digress. Back to cookies!
You know those healthier recipes that label themselves as soft serve or frosting when they have nothing to do with ice cream or butter They’re still tasty! But they’re also a pretty far stretch from the real thing. Well, this isn’t one of those recipes — this is legit, straight up, ooey, gooey, delicious cookie dough.
It also happens to be good for you. You’ve got your oats, your almonds, your apples, and your maple syrup. I mean, it’s basically like eating a bowl of oatmeal [with toppings] in a different form! And if you’re a little iffy on the chocolate, you can always sub in some raisins or nuts if you want a little added nutrition; but I firmly stand by the belief that everyone deserves to have chocolate for breakfast every now and then…
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Oatmeal Cookie Dough Breakfast Bake
- Total Time: 25 mins
- Yield: 1 serving 1x
Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp (16 g) almond butter*
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) unsweetened applesauce
- 2 tsp (10 ml) maple syrup
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 cup (20 g) rolled oats
- 2 Tbsp (14 g) almond meal**
- 1 Tbsp (10 g) chocolate chips***
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F (176°C) and lightly spray an individual sized (~16oz./500 ml) ramekin with cooking spray or grease it with cooking oil. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, combine the almond butter, applesauce, maple syrup, vanilla, baking powder, and salt. Mix well until fully combined. Add the oats and almond meal, mixing until you’re left with a sticky dough. Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Transfer dough to your greased ramekin, topping with a few extra chocolate chips and a sprinkle of sea salt, if desired. Bake for 18-20 minutes, until the centre has set and the bake has reached your desired consistency.
Notes
* Feel free to use any nut butter you have on hand.
** If you don’t have almond meal, you can replace it with an equal amount of oat flour. To make oat flour, simply grind rolled oats in a food processor or blender until they reach a floury consistency.
*** Feel free to sub with raisins or nuts for some added nutrition.
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
Looking for more healthy breakfast bake recipes? Try one of these
Brownie Batter Breakfast Bake
Chunky Monkey Breakfast Bake
Almond Joy Breakfast Bake
That looks amazing! Just pinned it 🙂
This looks SO good. Forget breakfast I’m making this for dessert with some yogurt on top!
It’s pretty great for when the chocolate monster hits at 3 PM… not that I would know or anything 😉
Oh my goodness, this is like desert for breakfast. I wonder what this would be like with flaxseed? I’m going to try it this weekend. I’m with you on the oatmeal for breakfast! That and coffee is what gets me through my morning workouts!
So thank you for picking my afternoon snack today 😉 looks fabulous! I’m a firm believer that chocolate is appropriate at any point in the day, including breakfast 😉
You know my attitude towards chocolate. All day every day.
Ooey-gooey!! The softer the better.
Now we need that coffee date (did you see IG??) and this. Paradise.
This look amazing!! I can’t wait to try it! Quick question. Is Almond Meal the same as Almond Flour??
Sure is! I use the one from Bob’s Red Mill.
love my some baked oatmeal 🙂 plus dessert for breakfast? huh yes please.
Considering the only flavored coffees I like have mocha in them, chocolate for breakfast is fine by me. Give me a plate of chocolate chip banana pancakes and I’m GOOD to go! And I’m definitely a huuuuuge batter eater… To the point I’ve made myself sick on multiple occasions (I’ll never learn), so I definitely love my cookies ooey-gooey and straight from the oven!
Your photography looks AWESOME. Love the photos!
Chocolate for breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack – ALL acceptable I say 😀
Gooey all the way!
Is this for real?! Looks/sounds sooo ridiculously delicious. Anything oats + cookie dough + chocolate chips and I am all in. And I am totally the same way as you– breakfast is the only thing that pulls me out of bed in the morning, and boy does it thrill the crap out of me when I have a heavenly bowl of overnight oats waiting for me to dig into!!!
Cookie dough is the best thing on earth!! Thanks for sharing this recipe! 🙂
Oh MAN I wish I had seen this before breakfast today! I totally would have made this! I have friends coming in town tonight, so maybe I should make this for them!
Underbaked and gooey is the only way to go for me when it comes to perfect cookies. Unfortunately, not everybody appreciates this and I got the “are you sure you baked them long enough??” comment before. Tssss… some people don’t know what’s good.
“Well, this isn’t one of those recipes” <- what everybody likes to say and I usually shake my head in disbelief [I'm sure you know which kind of recipes I'm talking about] but – feel honored 😉 – I'm taking your word here. Because it really sounds amazing. We're talking almonds, honey and oats – how could it not be?!
I definitely know what you mean… especially because I’ve been guilty of those recipes myself! And I like my cookies the same way, but I sometimes end up over baking them because I’m afraid of getting food poisoning from the egg. That’s why vegan recipes are perfection 😀
Haha, sorry but I think it’s -so- cute every time you mention your fear of salmonella. Either my mum really didn’t warn us as children. Or we just pretended we didn’t hear her because I’m sure both me and my siblings have eaten a lot of raw cookie dough during our childhood. I promise you’ll be fine if you ever dare to try it :).
That looks good! I don’t think that I could do the chocolate chips so early in the morning, but I’d love some apple chunks or raisins.
I am a crunchy cookie person. It’s all about the texture.
Yummy. This looks amazing. I’m a huge advocate for chocolate in the AM! Just need to go out and get some apple sauce and get this bad boy in my belly.
Looks so good!! I’ll give it a try tomorrow, but unfortunately I’m out of chocolate chips… I guess I’ll have to add some nutrition with raisins and nuts 😉
Also I’ll use your recipe to make my homemade applesauce, since it’s something you never find here in Brasillll…
Have a great weekend!
If you can’t find applesauce, you can always sub it with some mashed up banana!
ahhh cookie dough for breakfast….gotta love healthy eating 🙂
Ohemgeeeeee yummmm (I must say this at every recipe you post lol) this looks so good, the only problem for me is having to wait freskin 20 mins for it to bake in the oven !!!!! Ahhhh
I know, I know… But it’s definitely worth it 😉
I love how you can have this for breakfast and dessert! Looks yummy!
pinned! can’t wait to try (:
Chocolate for breakfast always! This is sad but I immediately thought this would be perfect for my afternoon snacks haha! I love this recipe!
Confession: I actually ate one around 3 PM yesterday afternoon because that’s when the chocolate monster hits BIG TIME. Definitely hit the spot 😀
Very rarely do I wake up wanting chocolate in my breakfast which is strange coming from the queen of dessert, chocolate fudge and former routine eater of cocoa pebbles for breakfast. I forgot I used to make a version of this only using banana in place of apple sauce and peanut butter in place of almond. I think I need to try this recipe especially since I have oat flour on hand to avoid my almond issue. And now I even recall that I bought the cutest ramekins for dishes like this!
Yum!! This looks so good. And once I show the boyfriend, I know what we’ll be making hahah
Well this looks absolutely delishous. You neeed to make a cookbook!
It’s on the [seemingly never-ending] to-do list!
Can I come over for breakfast please?? 😉
chomp, chomp, chomp!
Chocolate for breakfast? YAY all the way 😛 I use 100% cocoa in breakfast every single day, because… why not? Antioxidants, right? Love the recipe 😛
You know I LOVE my chocolate (self-proclaimed addict here!), but I have to say, I just can’t do it in the mornings. Nothing beats a bowl of hot cinnamon oatmeal with almond milk, cardamom and ginger:) I’m a bit high strung so that somehow mellows me out first thing in the day, HOWEVER- this looks INCREDIBLE for dessert, oh my gosh! Around 3-4 p.m. everyday is when my chocolate monster cravings hit, so this is perfect! Thanks for sharing:)<3 HAPPY FRIDAY<3
Confession: I actually ate this around 3 yesterday, because you’re right — that’s the time the chocolate beast hits BIG TIME. I’ve missed baked oats in the morning, though! And I think a cinnamon raisin variation would rock. Happy Friday, lovely <3
You are a genius!!! So, so making this soon!!
Chocolate for breakfast=yes please. Also, that baby spoon is adorable.
You know what Amanda, I think you might have a slight chocolate/oat addiction…just saying 😉
I think we need to start a chocolate/oat lovers club – we can start off our meetings with your skillet chocolate chip cookie, break in the middle for your oatmeal cookie dough breakfast bake and end with some of your pumpkin pie oatmeal bars…sounds good? (I imagine you are nodding your head emphatically-such a good idea right!)
🙂
Like you, I adore adore adore chocolate in crispy or ooey gooey cookie form or bars or oatmeal or soups, for breakfast, lunch, dinner or dessert -it is always welcome!
An oatmeal addiction? Noooo idea what you’re talking about 😛 I’m more than down for starting up an oatmeal addicts support group (read: lover’s club 😉 ). Hope you’re having a great Friday, Shashi <3
Okay now THIS is a Friday breakfast! Do you think that mashed banana would work in substitute for the unsweetened applesauce? I’ve heard sometimes you can do that in recipes…
And I’m convinced almond butter is just an all-encompassing savior. And it’s own food group 🙂 <3
Definitely! It’s mostly just for texture and a little bit of sweetness, so banana is perfect.
Not gonna lie, I waited to make breakfast until I read this post because I KNEW I was going to need to eat this asap. Off to the kitchen to whip this is up! Cookie dough for breakfast – best.thing.ever. Pinned!
YUM. Totally in agreement that everyone deserves chocolate now and again for bfast. In fact, I had some this morning 😉 It’s making my day a little brighter considering it’s pouring rain out and we will probably have to cancel an event my student org has been planning… womp. Maybe I’ll make this tomorrow to take away the pain :p
Awwr! It’s been rainy and cloudy here for the past couple of days too. I like that it’s getting warmer, but I wouldn’t mind some sunshine!
literally drooling over this right now!
Chocolate and cookies for breakfast!?! I’m in!!! I’m in love with this recipe! Simple, yet delicious! AND, I’m all about ooey gooey cookies for sure! Can’t wait to try it! 🙂
Oooey goooey cookies all the way. There is a place in the UK called Millies cookies and their cookies were so melty and gooey and warrrrm. Me and My Mum used to share a big bag of them after our McDonalds (wow…) in my not so healthy days…This looks like a healthy way to re live those badboys! Thankyou!
This looks delicious Amanda! I favor slightly under baked, ooey-gooey cookies. Hope your weekend is grand!
Ha, I love the last picture. I am going to try this! I bet I wouldn’t even be able to notice the almond butter that much. Peanut butter I hate but almond butter I can tolerate! Basically, you had me at cookie dough!
You definitely can’t taste it at all — it’s mostly for texture 🙂
Brilliant! Breakfast tomorrow, foe sho!