Breakfast Oat Cake

This is one of my absolute FAVOURITE things to make for breakfast, no lie. When I have time in the morning I love to bake some oats. It is so incredibly easy, it takes about 3 minutes to put the mixture together and 20 minutes to bake. Which is useful in the morning for me, as I can stick it in the oven and get some chores done in that 20 mins, like preparing my lunch boxes/watering my plants. It also makes your house smell amazing for the rest of the day! The circular/pizza looking creation above is my most recent attempt. The middle is strawberry protein oats and the outer ring is a chocolatey cinnamon flavour. I could not fit it into a bowl to eat it, so I broke it all up and topped with honey and peanut butter (below). Words cannot describe how scrumptious it was, it's like having cake for breakfast! Who'd of thought that could ever be healthy? Another great thing about it, is that I use the exact same amount of oats I would use for a bowl of porridge/over night oats (50g), it produces such a huge amount because it rises in the oven. I'm actually salivating right now just from writing about it...  

Broken up and topped with PB and honey!

I got the idea for this when I saw a recipe for mini oat cookies, I think it may have originally come from one of my favourite food blogs. I tried it out and they were delicious, so I thought that I could just scale it up to make one giant cookie for breakfast & it worked! Here is the recipe for my chocolate and strawberry ring creation...

Ingredients

Strawberry Centre

25g rolled oats

1 egg white

1/2 mashed banana

1 tsp honey

1 tsp stevia

1 tbsp desicated coconut

1 scoop strawberry USN Pure Protein Powder

1/4 tsp baking powder

Chocolate Outer Ring

25g rolled oats

1 egg white

1/2 mashed banana

1 tsp honey

1 tsp stevia

1 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp baking powder

Instructions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 deg Celsius, and grease a baking tray with butter.

1. In a bowl combine all of the ingredients for the strawberry mixture.

2. In a separate bowl combine the ingredients for the chocolate mixture. 

3. Pour the strawberry mixture into a circle in the middle of the baking tray.

4. Spoon the chocolate mixture round the edge of the strawberry circle as evenly as possible.

5. Put in the middle of the pre-heated oven and bake for 20 minutes.

6. Take out of the oven, tear up into pieces and put them into a bowl.

7. Top with peanut butter, it should melt over the top as the cake will be warm. If you have a sweet tooth like me then I would also recommend a drizzle of honey as well.

Enjoy!

Here are some other cakes I have baked:

Strawberry oat cake with strawberry protein powder & whole strawberries

Standard banana & oat cake - sometimes simple is best

Chocolate & cinnamon oat cake

Cake for breakfast is the way forward...

Lucy x