This simple recipe is easy and makes a great healthy snack, breakfast on the go or post-workout treat!
Basic Ingredients
200 grams porridge oats
50 grams of sugar (any type will work/use less if you prefer)
3 whole eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 teaspoon of baking powder
Optional extras – Personalise your oatcakes by adding any of the following…
Chopped nuts
Chocolate chips
Sultanas
Chopped apricots
Honey
Cranberries
Chopped dried apple rings
Method
Put the porridge oats into a blender and whizz them up into a rough flour. Add the sugar, the eggs, vanilla essence and the baking powder and blend again until you have a batter-like consistency.
Add your choice of optional extra ingredients and by hand, stir them into your mixture.
Spoon the mixture out onto a greaseproof paper covered baking tray using a table spoon allowing for the mixture to spread slightly. You should get 9-12 portions per batch of mixture.
Place in a pre-heated oven set to 200 degrees and bake for 10-12 minutes and then leave to cool on a cooling rack before eating.
I made sultana, almond and honey ones yesterday and they were great!
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For those that are interested the Nutritional Analysis for the above (for a recipe that makes 12) each serving contains: Calories 98; Fat 2.8g; Carb 14.7g; Protein 3.4
If you swap sugar for 30g fruit sugar, add 50g chopped dried apricots & 15g finely chopped almonds the Nutrition Analysis is: Cals 105; Fat 3.4g; Carb 14.7; Protein 3.9g
Just off to bake a batch now!
Could you just use an Instant Hot Oat cereal such as Ready Brek instead of blitzing the oats into a flour like consistency seeing it’s the same thing?
I guess you could also use a bit of sweetener such as sucralose instead if you’re not keen on the sugar content.
I see no reason why not Marcie – give it a try and let us know if it works!
I tried this using Ready Brek and Splenda and it worked a treat. I also added some raisins and it was a perfect pre-run and post-run snack as you get all the extra added vitamins and minerals in the cereal itself along with the protein from the eggs for recovery. I had to add a bit of milk though to get the consitency right. I would definitely suggest people give this one a go. They’re sort of like scones when baked. Really nice.
Thanks Marcie – some great additions to the recipe!