Recipe: Oatmeal Breakfast Snacks

So these are the best little snacks ever! I saw the recipe from the Food for Laughter blog. Which is an awesome blog by the way. Definitely check it out and add the feed, because she’s always posting yummy dishes.

I only adjusted the recipe to not have egg (which didn’t seem to make much of a difference) and I used regular flour because it was all I had. And I added flax seed. But if you read any of my posts, you know I put flax seed in everything, so no surprise there, haha.

I plan on making another batch once I eat through these that’s slightly different with a bunch of nuts and dried fruit in it… Its my new breakfast staple!

Ingredients:
1/2 cup vanilla soymilk
1/3 cup honey
2 T olive oil
2 tsp vanilla (imitation)
1/2 tsp salt
3 cups oats
1/2 cup bread flour

Materials:
Mixing Bowl
Cookie sheet, baking pan

Set the oven to 400 degrees.

Mix up the ‘wet’ ingredients a long with the salt (make sure it dissolves and is mixed in well).

Add 2 cups of oats and mix really well. Once you’re convinced all the liquid is combined evenly, add the last cup of oats and the half a cup of flour. Its very thick batter at this point, so keep your resolve strong and push through. Trust me, its worth it… haha.

And I should probably admit, I got my hands dirty with this one. Sometimes its just easier to mix/manipulate it by hand.

Roll into balls. Mine are anywhere between 1 and 2 inches in diameter. And they cooked through fine at that size, so thats good.

Stick them on a cookie sheet and bake for about 15 minutes. Okay, I’ll admit I had mine in for a little more than 15 (18 maybe?), but it all depends on the stove I’d imagine. Plus those last three minutes were half spent with the oven door open. So it probably all evens out in the end, haha.

They’re super filling and taste awesome. Although they are really dense, so I’d STRONGLY recommend eating them with some sort of beverage handy. I go through a whole water bottle just eating two of them. (Another reason why they’re great for breakfast!) Thanks again to Food for Laughter. Awesome stuff.