Mother's Day breakfast Ideas

I'm sure that all the dads out there have everything all planned out already! But just in case there is someone out there undecided or an older sibling wanting to bake with a younger sibling for Mom, here are a few breakfast things!

 My precious Nathan helped me bake a cake for an order. A few days later, he was bored and I asked him if he wanted to bake. All he wanted to bake was a tiered Chocolate cake. "You know, Mommy! Cakes that you put on top of each other! Let's do that!" Well, I was not about to have a real tiered chocolate cake sitting around tempting me, so we made an extra big batch of a chocolate chocolate chip oatmeal muffin, using a recipe that I found on Brendid.com healthy chocolate oatmeal muffins recipe

 (side note: if you really want it to seem like you are giving mom chocolate cake for breakfast, ice it with a homemade, healthier version of that spread moms love so much! dark chocolate hazelnut spread)

I love, love, love baked oatmeal! Over the years, I have played around with the recipe. It got healthier as I got healthier. I decided to bake it in muffin pans so we could quickly grab them for school. This would be a nice brunch addition and you can easily make a variety of flavors. I made 3 different kinds for this round. I topped some with blueberries and then some sliced peaches (I poked a few pieces down in the center of each cup.) I took the last third of the oatmeal and folded in peanut butter before scooping it and then topped it with a few chocolate chips.

Baked Oatmeal:
3/4c unsweetened applesauce
1/4c honey
3 eggs
1 1/2 TBSP baking powder
4c oatmeal
1 1/2c almond milk (or milk of choice)
1 tsp vanilla
cinnamon to taste ( I'm always heavy handed with cinnamon)

Combine wet ingredients and add in oats and baking power. Bake at 350*  until it's set (about 30-40 minutes for a pan and maybe like 15-20 minutes for cups)

*it's also delicious with mashed banana instead of applesauce




Don't always trust the Internet!! You know, I had my doubts about this one, but they made it sound so easy! I should really be more cautious about a site that also tries to figure out what kind of unicorn I would be by answering these 6 questions. You were suppose to dip the bread in the egg/almond milk mix and then gently press it into a greased muffin pan. Magic would happen and you'd end up with cups you could fill with greek yogurt and berries. well, just look

started getting a bad feeling about it but they said....

.......THEY LIED

 I gave up! I used the 4 eggs to a 1cup of milk ratio and mixed in vanilla and cinnamon. Never again will I mess with the old fashioned, cook it in a pan method! I made it "fancy" for the kids by spreading some all natural peanut butter on the hot toast and then covered it with banana slices and a little honey. It was delicious! My tears from knowing I was going to clean that muffin pan might have made it a little salty! Just kidding! That would be gross! But I definitely said some words that my mother would not approve of when I tackled that pan!!