Spoonful of Sugar Free

Registered Dietitian

Breakfast Cakes On-the-Go

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First off, I’d like to announce the randomly chosen winner of the CSN giveaway. Congratulations…

Ashley from QuasiChick!

You will be receiving an email from me shortly with the $35 CSN gift code. Thanks to everyone who entered! I would love to give all of you gift cards 🙂

Now, here is an easy recipe for Breakfast cakes. You can make a huge batch of them and save them for the week, but they are so quick and easy to make that you can make them the morning-of, too.

Breakfast Oat Cakes

~These little cakes can are completely versatile and can be made into any flavor you want! Vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free (make sure you use gluten-free oats), and of course, Sugar-free!

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup rolled oats
  • 1/2 cup oat flour (simply blend oats in blender to make oat flour)
  • 1/2 cup chia gel (mix 1 tablespoon of chia seeds with 1/2 cup water and let sit for 20 minutes, or until they “puff up”)
  • 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • Extra: you may add any nuts, fruit, or spices you like. My favorite add-in lately is cinnamon, walnuts, and raisins. It tastes like a oatmeal raisin cookie!

Preheat oven to 375*. In a mixing bowl, mix all ingredients. The dough should be thick and stick together. Adjust liquid amount if needed to create muffins, cookies, or biscuit cakes. If you feel like muffins, add more chia gel. A little less gel for cookies, and even less for biscuit cakes.

Roll into balls, plop dough with a spoon, shape into biscuits on a cookies sheet, or fill a muffin pan. Bake for 10 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Makes 12 breakfast cakes. (But why keep this recipe just for breakfast? They are perfect any time of day! Especially snack time or tea time 😉 )

Health Benefits:

  • Oats: Full of both soluble and insoluble fiber, oats are known to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease. For more information about this amazing grain, click HERE for a post I wrote last year.
  • Chia: Because of this little seed’s extraordinary ability to retain water, it is great for hydration. The ancient Aztecs and Mayans used to carry it with them on long journeys to increase their strength and endurance. It also helps balance blood sugar levels. Chia seeds are great sources of fiber, omega-3 fatty acids, and antioxidants.

Thought-provoking, mind-prodding question of the day:

Are you a morning person or a night person?

I am definitely a morning person. I can never sleep in, and I love going to bed early. Like Benjamin Franklin said, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” 😉

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  7. I am definitely a morning person as well. I am basically useless after 3pm and never sleep in past 8am!

    Those oat cakes look really yummy! I will have to try them out soon.

  9. Wow, looks like I am your lone night owl! It takes all of the inner strength and motivation I possess to rise before 8 a.m. Probably because I have to force myself to hit the sack at night. I am up until midnight without batting an eye, and sometimes it’s 2 a.m. or later before I finally convince myself that it’s sleepy time. I am famous for starting laundry, cleaning or baking projects around 10 or 11 p.m. For example, tonight I will probably attempt these delicious-looking breakfast cakes. 🙂

  11. These look awesome! I love that quote by Franklin, too! My mom only says it ALL the time!

    The past few nights I’ve been staying up REALLY late until like 12. Bad habit. I’m trying to start going to bed at 9 again though. And I usually wake up at 7:30. I love sleeping in though, but not too late! My friend sleeps in until 11am on weekends, but I don’t think that’s a good idea AT ALL!

  16. Okay..this is kind of creepy. This past week I have been looking for a good, healthy oat cake recipe for breakfast, but have had a hard time finding one that seems just right.

    And lo and behold you post an oat cake recipe.

    Mind-reading genius, you must be. 😉

    Thanks! Can’t wait to try this out!

  17. Those look amazing!!! 🙂
    I’m a morning person without a doubt! I get up at 4:40am during the school weeks (crazy, I know, but I have animals to take care of, lunch to make, etc.) and sleeping in past six on the weekends is like sleeping in till noon for most people! And after about 7pm, I can’t stay awake. But it’s a good thing since I usually go to bed before 8. 😉

  19. Yum! Those look so good! I honestly don’t even know if I’m a morning or night person. I never stay up late during the week, if I don’t get all my homework done by 10 or so I finish is in the morning. So, I guess in that sense I’m a morning but person but I still have to drag myself out of bed in the morning!

  21. Can’t wait to try these! I am definitely a morning person, and my husband is a night person – makes it interesting in my house!

  22. Yum, these look super tasty AND portable!

    I can never seem to sleep past 7:30! I usually go to bed around 10 or 11 on the weekdays, but I have a bad habit of staying up till 2am on the weekends! I need to get better about that since it always leaves me a bit “hungover” on Mondays!

  23. I’m not a morning person or a night person. I go to bed early, and I hate waking up. I guess if I have to pick one, I would rather stay up late as long as I have something to do. I used to be a morning person.

  26. i made these – or something based on these… – for breakfast this morning! couldn’t make oat flour as everyone was asleep, so i used packaged oat bran. two flax eggs and it still seemed a little crumbly, so i added a dollop of fresh-ground peanut butter. crumbled pecans and cashews and pumpkin seeds topped it off! it was still a little crumbly, but that just means i’ll probably try to make granola. :p

  27. Any idea what a serving size is? How many do you typically eat at one time, say for breakfast?

    • Megan,

      It really depends on your activity level, but I’ll usually eat 2 with a handful of nuts or spread some pb on them.

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