The Five Foods you Meet in Heaven
Can anyone guess mine? I’ll give you a hint. One starts with a Ch and ends in –ocolate. But another one is oatmeal. I even have a separate recipe tab:
Under that tab are recipes for the likes of Snickerdoodle Oatmeal, Cookie Dough Oatmeal, and even Boston Cream Pie Oatmeal. I even have Christmas oats and Halloween oats. The problem is none of those are good for Valentine’s Day! 😕
Chocolate-Raspberry Truffle Oatmeal (Or “Raspberry Cream Oats” if no chocolate)
- 1/3c uncooked rolled oats (40g)
- 1 cup frozen raspberries (100g)
- salt (I used very scant 1/4 tsp)
- a little over 1 cup water or milk of choice (260g)
- 1-2 tbsp creamer (I used 15g Silk)
- optional: chocolate (We’ll get to that later)
- sweetener I didn’t use any, but many people will want some.*
*In place of sugar, you can use the Melted Banana Trick.
Procedure: The night before, I microwave the oats, salt, and water in a large pyrex measuring cup for 3 minutes (2 minutes if using quick oats). Then I leave it in the microwave for 5 more minutes before transferring—uncovered—to the fridge. Next day, after running, I add the other ingredients (as well as 1 1/2 tbsp more water), stir, and microwave again until the raspberries melt into the oats.
Delicious without chocolate, but… This time, for fun, I stuck a square of 100% Ghirardelli (my favorite chocolate) in the hot oats. However, I didn’t take a photo of the ensuing chocolate melted mess… I was too busy devouring it! Godiva in a bowl.
What are your top 5 favorite foods?
Mine: kabocha, broccoli, coconut, especially (Vegan Coconut Fudge) and oatmeal and chocolate. Of course, chocolate!
Patricia says
I am unable to eat oatmeal (it gives me wicked heartburn), is there any way to make this recipe with chia or tapioca?
Chocolate-Covered Katie says
Sorry, I don’t know. But you can use spelt flakes, quinoa flakes, kamut flakes, or even barley or bulgur! 🙂
MC says
Oh my goodness, that looks like a delicious bowl of oatmeal. Mm oatmeal, berries, chocolate…
Lauren says
Katie – I just made this for dinner using the “pudding technique” and It was PHENOMENAL. By FAR my favorite oatmeal recipe. I cannot wait for breakfast tomorrow so I can have it again 🙂
Morgan says
I just love your site. This looks super yummy!
My top 5:
– tomatoes
– kale
– quinoa
– sushi
– endangered species dark chocolate with mint
<3 Thanks for another great post!
Melanie says
haha I’m a little late commenting on this one. But I am going through all your posts, and so the date is a little irrelevant to me :p I love all your recipes, and thought I should dedicate some time going through your blog to discover all the recipes I may have missed!
Top 5 Foods:
Oats
Nut Butter
Perogies
Spinach
Broccoli
Thanks for sharing your recipes with us! 🙂
Chocolate-Covered Katie says
Aww haha comments on old posts always make me smile! 🙂
P.S. I haven’t had a perogie in so long. Maybe I should try making my own… sweet potato sounds really good!
Carly says
Just made this for brekkie and it was awesome!!
Stacey says
I thought I was being original making something similar this morning, but of course you already had it covered 🙂 I made McCann’s Quick and Easy Irish Oat per the directions on the box, and then mixed in some raspberry preserves, about 10 chocolate chips, slivered almonds, dried cherries, and a little bit of brown sugar. It’s not quite as healthy as your version, but it was super easy and delish! Also, the raspberry preserves is already sweet, so I didn’t need that much sugar added.
Bharathy says
Hi Katie,
Your picture here had been copied by the site here as many of ours.
We are filling up a form and placing a complaint to google to cease shameless the action by this particular blogger!
The blogger is lifting (and that’s what she does instead of posting on her own) continuously, not abiding to our mails and warnings and have commercialised her space!
Would be lovely if you would place your complaint here!
http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1114905&page=ts.cs&fb_source=message
Thanks in advance,
Bharathy
Chocolate-Covered Katie says
Hi Bharathy,
I’m confused… you didn’t leave a link as to where the site’s being copied.
Pipsa says
Must answer the question as I ran into this oldish recipe. So top 5 foods:
1. oatmeal
2. peanut butter
3. carrots
4. dark chocolate
5. apples
Other important stuff not quite making the cut: blackcurrants, blueberries, ryebread, natural yogurt, cauliflower, zucchini.
Julia Smith says
Yumm! And uh where is the Boston Cream Pie?? 😛 I NEED that in my life LOL! 😀 Haha could I have a link please? Thanks!! 🙂
Kayla says
Top 7 foods (couldn’t do just 5:P): Chocolate, Avocado, oatmeal, pasta, raspberries, mango, cheesecake.
Not in any particular order though.
As for this recipe, it is wonderful! 🙂 I’ve been eyeballing it for a while but I never had frozen raspberries.. Or even normal raspberries, as they’re crazy expensive. A week or so ago they were on sale at the store and me and my mom bought 16 packs! So I definitely had some to freeze! 🙂
I decided to make this today in a way that would challenge my eating disorder, as I was struggling a lot yesterday.. So I made not 1/3 cup oats, but 1/2 cup oats.
I made it all this morning with 1/2 cup milk (The store ran out of almond milk, which threw me into anxiety, but whatever) and 1/2 cup water, as we don’t have any creamer. I made it on the stove then added the raspberries along with a little but of cream cheese (which made it beyond creamy.. I’m not vegan obviously), and a bit of sweetener, and then topped it off with a square of 85% Ghiradelli chocolate (darkest we have in my town.. I stocked up on the only 4 left and I got like 6 of the 72%.. It was on sale for 95 cents too!!) . One of the best things I’ve ever tasted. It got me just the right amount of full and didn’t make me feel guilty and heavy. 🙂
After I added cream cheese I thought of some sort of cheesecake oatmeal. 😉 I might have to experiment with it.. Maybe create my first recipe. 😛
Alexis says
This oatmeal was incredible! Chocolate in oatmeal is a wonderful to start the morning!! It was so good I couldn’t wait for it to cool down, so a little bit of a burnt tongue but worth it! 🙂
Kali says
This is basically my default breakfast.:D Great minds!
I have a jar full of a 2 parts oatmeal to 1 part muesli mix (I like the chewiness of the muesli with the softness of the oats). I mix that equal parts with frozen red berries and soya milk or water if I’m broke, then throw in four squares of chocolate and microwave.^_^ Takes two minutes.
AJ says
Hi Katie,
I made this for breakfast this morning using a batch of your “Voluminous Oatmeal” from the night before. I used 1/2 scoop of vanilla protein powder instead of the creamer, and added a drizzle of honey for sweetener. The oatmeal turned out delicious! Thanks for the great recipe!
Kat says
I had some 100% Ghirardelli squares in the freezer that I wanted to eat today, so I doubled this recipe for my brother and I and he loved it! Haha, he ate it even faster than I did, and I am a chocolate fiend!! 🙂 Keep up the good work!
Victor says
holy… wow… This might be my new favorite recipe on your blog… I made a double batch for breakfast for me and my roommate last night… Ate it this morning. I was not expecting it to be as good as it was. And by good, I mean, I might actually prefer to eat this over regular desserts. Like if someone offered me the chocolate chip cookie dough and this after dinner, I might choose this. I HIGHLY recommend using the melted banana trick she mentioned to anyone reading. I was extremely dubious of it at first but gave it a try and wow… She’s serious about the flavor-adding powers of it. The melted banana flavor mixed with the tart raspberries was insanely delicious… This was the best oatmeal I’ve ever had and I make pretty extravagant oatmeals…. This oatmeal comes out being extremely creamy as well. Unbelievable. Thank you so much for this ingenious and simple recipe Katie… woahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoah