Easy Cookie Dough Baked Oats Recipe You’ll Love

Baked oats started trending not too long ago, and since then, I just knew I had to collect some of the best cookie dough baked oats recipes I could find. In this post, you’ll gain insight into tips and tricks you can use to make your baked oatmeal turn out perfect. In addition, I’ve provided you with a variety of cookie dough baked oatmeal options so you can pick the one best suited to your tastes. So, without further delay, let’s dive into these yummy recipes!

Table of Contents

• What Is Baked Oatmeal?
• Tips for Making Cookie Dough Baked Oatmeal
• How to Make This Cookie Dough Oatmeal
  • Cookie Dough Baked Oatmeal #1 (Basic)
  • Cookie Dough Baked Oatmeal #2 (No Banana)
  • Cookie Dough Oatmeal #3 (Microwave)
  • Cookie Dough Baked Oatmeal #4 (Protein)
• Cookie Dough Baked Oats: Embrace the Variety!
• FAQs

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What Is Baked Oatmeal?

Baked oatmeal is a combination of oats with a variety of other ingredients, such as milk and sugar. To this, you can add a variety of other mix-ins. Finally, the oats are baked in the oven and dished up either in bowls or on plates.

The taste and consistency of baked oatmeal often vary from recipe to recipe. This is because most baked oatmeal recipes contain different ingredients at differing ratios, which can cause textures to be dissimilar. One baked oatmeal recipe may be gooey in the center (similar to that of normal oatmeal), while another may resemble a soft-baked granola bar.

It really just depends!

Tips for Making Cookie Dough Baked Oatmeal

Now that you know what baked oatmeal is, let’s discuss a few tips for making cookie dough baked oats.

As you might imagine, making cookie dough baked oatmeal includes all the usual suspects for traditional oatmeal, but also includes, you guessed it, chocolate chips!

Follow these tips for making scrumptious cookie dough baked oatmeal the next time you get the craving!

1. Use old-fashioned oats for thicker, chewier, and heartier baked oatmeal. Choose quick oats for thinner or gooier baked oatmeal.
2. Only use a blender for your baked oats if your recipe calls for one. As previously mentioned, baked oat recipe results can vary dramatically. Therefore, be sure to follow the directions to a tee to achieve the intended outcome.
3. Baking times will affect the consistency of your baked oatmeal. You’ll notice that some cookie dough baked oatmeal recipes will call for you to cook the oatmeal for more or less time, depending on the texture you want. Be mindful of this when following recipe instructions.
4. Lastly, most of the upcoming recipes will ask that you mix in your chocolate chips into the oatmeal before cooking. Still, you should feel free to add additional chocolate chips to the top of your baked oats once baked.

How to Make This Cookie Dough Oatmeal

Coming up, we’ve got a handful of different baked oatmeal recipes for you that are inspired by deliciously satisfying cookie dough, such as the chocolate covered cookie dough bites I have on the blog. Each recipe is a little different from the others in terms of ingredients and directions, so be sure to read each one closely.

Alright, enough of the chatter. Let’s dive into these enticing baked oat breakfast recipes!

Cookie Dough Baked Oatmeal #1 (Basic)

Ingredients

• 1 cup old fashioned oats
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 banana
• 2 tablespoons peanut butter
• 1 cup milk
• 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 tablespoon maple syrup
• 1 tbsp semi-sweet chocolate chips

Toppings

• semi-sweet chocolate chips
• peanut butter

Instructions

1. To begin, preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. From there, place oats, baking powder, salt, banana, peanut butter, milk, cinnamon, vanilla, and maple syrup in a blender. Blend until smooth.
3. After blending, place the batter into a baking dish. Gently fold in chocolate chips.
4. Bake the mixture in the oven for approximately 30 minutes. You can bake it for slightly longer if you want a firmer texture.
5. Once removed from the oven, allow the baked oatmeal to cool for at least five minutes.
6. From here, add your optional topping of peanut butter and additional chocolate chips.
7. Slice and serve!

Cookie Dough Baked Oatmeal #2 (No Banana)

If having banana in your recipe, like in the above baked oatmeal cookie dough, is not something you want, you might like this banana-less baked oatmeal cookie dough instead:

Ingredients

• ½ cup old fashioned rolled oats
• ¼ teaspoon baking powder
• ⅓ cup plain yogurt
• ¼ cup milk
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided

Instructions

1. To begin, preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. In a mixing bowl, add your yogurt and milk and mix until combined.
3. To this, stir in your brown sugar, oats, and baking powder.
4. Lastly, fold in a tablespoon of your chocolate chips. Top the mixture with 1 teaspoon (or more) of additional chocolate chips.
5. Bake in a baking dish for about 18-20 minutes. The baked oats are ready when nicely browned.
6. Allow the cookie dough baked oatmeal to cool for about 10 minutes before slicing into it.
7. Serve!

Cookie Dough Oatmeal #3 (Microwave)

Don’t have time to make overnight oats, or bake your oatmeal? You can make cookie dough in the microwave, and certainly there’s a version of this recipe, too!

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup old fashioned rolled oats
• 2/3 cup vanilla almond milk
• 1/2 tablespoon almond butter
• 2 teaspoons honey
• 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon mini chocolate chips. divided

Instructions

1. To make your cookie dough baked oatmeal in the microwave, begin by mixing together all of the ingredients except your chocolate chips.
2. From here, stir in half of your chocolate chips.
3. Cook the mixture for 1 minute.
4. Remove your oatmeal from the microwave and stir before topping with the other half of your chocolate chips.
5. Microwave for an additional minute.
6. Allow your oatmeal to cool. Enjoy!

Cookie Dough Baked Oatmeal #4 (Protein)

If you’re on a high protein diet, you might want to put more protein in this recipe. And don’t worry, I’ve got you! Like my protein cookie dough, you can try this recipe below, too!

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup old fashioned rolled oats
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tbsp maple syrup
• 1 scoop vanilla protein powder
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

1. To begin, preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Using a blender, blend your oats to create your own oat flour. Once your oats resemble flour, add your baking powder, maple, vanilla protein powder, milk, and egg. Stir until combined. (It is important not to use your blender to mix these final ingredients together. Over mixing may render your final baked oatmeal dense and rubbery.)
3. Once combined, fold in your chocolate chips.
4. Transfer the mixture to an oven-safe baking dish and top with additional chocolate chips.
5. Cook for 23-27 minutes.
6. Slice and serve!

Cookie Dough Baked Oats: Embrace the Variety!

As you can see, there are several ways you can whip up a delicious cookie dough baked oatmeal at home, with all four recipes offering their own unique texture and flavor. And if you have leftover oats from this recipe, why not use them to make this fantastic overnight oats tiramisu?

I hope you’ve found this helpful and that you give a few of these recipes a try.

See you next time!

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