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Simple Dessert: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cake

Chocolate Chips

If your family is anything like mine, your kids will be begging for dessert every night.

The problem with desserts is that they can fill kid’s bellies with tons of sugar right before bed, and the high cost of the ingredients can break your budget.

Having a recipe for a simple, healthy dessert made from ingredients you have on hand will help meet everyone’s needs. Full of fiber and sweetened with honey, this cake recipe is nutritious, filling, and cheap to make. Kudos to my wife for creating this knock-out dessert that satisfies the sweet tooth and fits our budget.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cake

  • 1 cup of oats, cooked in 2 cups of water and left to cool
  • 1 cup of whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup of honey (or agave nectar for a vegan version)
  • 3/4 cup peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Cook the oatmeal on the stove, just like for breakfast, and set it aside to cool. Preheat the oven  to 350°. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt in a mixing bowl, and grease a square cake pan (we like to use coconut oil).

When the oatmeal has cooled (not cold, just cooled from simmering), mix in the honey and peanut butter and add to the other ingredients. Stir in the chocolate chips (if you want the chips to stay separate, you’ll have to wait for the oats to cool. Otherwise, you get chocolate swirl cake.)

Pour into the pan and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the cake comes out clean. Serve hot for a treat with ice cream (think hot fudge sundae), or cool it completely and serve as cake.

When your kids beg for dessert, make them Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cake.

You’ll be amazed at how simple and cheap it is to make a high fiber, totally satisfying dessert from ingredients that you already have on hand.

Image: SMercury98 at Flickr under a Creative Commons License

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Comments

  1. Tara says

    November 2, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    Yum. This one is bookmarked. Can’t wait to try it–as soon as the candy is gone. I love the fact that I have all of the ingredients in my cupboard.

    Reply
  2. Sammie says

    November 3, 2008 at 6:46 am

    What a lovely easy and simple recipe to follow. I will have great fun cooking this with my kids. I also have nearly all the ingredients in my cupboard – only the baking soda to buy.

    Reply
  3. Erin says

    November 12, 2008 at 4:10 pm

    Wow- good idea! It turned out super tasty!

    Reply
  4. Julie Finn says

    November 14, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    This is one delicious cake–your wife is awesome!

    Ours didn’t turn out very cakey, which wasn’t a problem, because now they’re oatmeal chocolate chip bars–even more delicious, because you can totally eat a bar way more often than you can eat cake, right?

    Reply
  5. weeb says

    January 14, 2009 at 11:01 pm

    Wow, these came out cakey but mushy-dense, and simply delicious. I will definitely make these again.

    THANK YOU!!

    Reply

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