Recipe: Peanut Butter Oatmeal Breakfast Snacks

So last week I made Oatmeal Breakfast Snacks, a recipe that I got from a fellow blogger, Food for Laughter. (Awesome blog, she’s great!)

I decided that even though they were pretty awesome the way they were, that i wanted to experiment with some new tastes. (Plus I shared one with a friend who exclaimed “This would be awesome with Peanut Butter!”

Yes, friend… indeed… haha)

So… I essentially added peanut butter, coconut, and walnuts. I have to say…. I’ve seriously enjoyed eating breakfast this week. Its a rare thing when I don’t want to share my food. I definitely haven’t been sharing these… (they keep great, so I’ve been having two eat morning at work for a snack.) Yuuumm. haha

Ingredients:
1/2 cup vanilla soymilk
1/3 cup honey
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp vanilla (pure extract)
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup all natural peanut butter
1/2 cup shredded coconut (sweetened is best)
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
2 1/2 cups instant oats
1/4 cup flour

Set the oven to 400 degrees.

For the progress photos, go HERE. (It should work.. I’m still learning the ropes on the whole Flickr thing, so bear with me… haha)

Mix all the ‘wet’ ingredients together…Soymilk, honey, vanilla, oil, and peanut butter. (I put the salt in with the soymilk before I added the other wet ingredients actually. Just to make sure it was dissolved and mixed in well.) The peanut butter isn’t going to completely mix. The idea is to make sure there aren’t any large clunks. Small ones are okay.

Then I added the coconut and mixed well. After chopping up the walnuts I added them in as well. I added the oats 1/2 a cup at that time. The first time I made the similar oatmeal snacks I had a lot of dry oatmeal. This took care of that ‘issue’.

Its best to leave the flour for last I’ve found. That way everything else is well combined before the batter gets really tough and hard to manipulate.So yes… mix in the flour and the batter should be good to go.

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.