Dark Chocolate Chunk Cheesecake Baked Oatmeal.
Are you seeing a pattern here?
I’m a leeeeettle cheesecake obsessed.
Can’t get enough of cheesecake–like things.
Want all the cheesecake things.
Especially trashed up cheesecake things. They are so me.
(this is going great.)
This is sort of a cheesecake-like thing. I don’t mean to mislead you, but… we aren’t putting cheesecake in our oatmeal. Which doesn’t sound like such a terrible idea – soooo, we should probably get on that. Maybe Saturday morning after too many glasses of wine.
But this is some baked oatmeal that just kinda tastes like it has cheesecake in it. I basically have decided that I can add mascarpone cheese to anything semi sweet and have it taste like cheesecake. Best discovery ever.
And we all know I have the sweetest teeth in the universe. So I think I’m on to something.
Weird thing: I also don’t even care for oatmeal, unless we are talking instant packets of peaches and cream or a darn good chewy cookie. BUT THIS. gahhhhhhh.
I obviously was too busy shoveling it in my mouth to take a decent picture.
So if I am going to eat oatmeal, it has to be good oatmeal. Flavorful, textured, trashed up. Me oatmeal. This is one way to do it.
My next adventure is taking these flavors and making a quinoa breakfast bowl. Actually, I might do that for lunch. Wild and crazy. That’s me.
Dark Chocolate Chunk Cheesecake Baked Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1/4 cup loosely packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup canned coconut milk + extra for drizzling
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 ounces mascarpone cheese
- 3 ounces 72% dark chocolate, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spray a 9×9-inch baking dish with nonstick spray.
- In a large bowl, whisk together oats, sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. In a small bowl, whisk together milk, egg, and vanilla extract. Add the wet ingredients to the dry, stirring until combined. Stir in the mascarpone cheese, breaking it apart with a spoon but allowing it to remaining in chunks. Stir in the chocolate.
- Pour in the baking dish and bake for 23-25 minutes, or until the the mixture is just set. The time may be a bit shorted or longer if you use a different sized baking dish. You don’t want to overbake it! Remove from the oven and serve immediately with extra milk for drizzling.
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92 Comments on “Dark Chocolate Chunk Cheesecake Baked Oatmeal.”
It’s like dessert for breakfast and that’s pretty much the best kind of breakfast!
And I will totally give you run for your money on the sweetest teeth. It’s my blog tagline. My teeth are that sweet. Lol :)
Damn girl. Don’t you know I’m addicted to cheesecake? Ya got me drooling over here!
Cheesecake for breakfast? Yes please! And combine that with some dark chocolate. We got a WINNER!
Loving those huge chunks of chocolate in there!
Really who can complain about chocolate for breakfast really? cheese cake even better. I guess say that I am, getting my serving whole grains, calcium and antioxidants, at least that is what I tell my friends.
No wonder my cream cheese is disappearing so fast
K, this looks amazing!! And I think adding cheesecake to oatmeal sounds like a fantastic idea. I hope you document it if it happens on Sunday! :)
Oats and dark chocolate? Yes, bowl of health indeed.
I Could totally do this…..Says the not a cheesecake person. Mascarpone cheese, chocolate, oatmeal and coconut milk? For breakfast? Heck yes.
I want this for breakfast every day!!
I can’t wait to try this this weekend.
I love everything about this – oats, chocolate and cheesecake – it sounds and looks perfect.
mmmmmm, I love all things cheesecake as well.. I need to try this ish out. I don’t love oatmeal, either. I guess I try to eat it for my heart..
Ohhhhh yesssss. As someone who is sort of “meh” about oatmeal (despite wanting to love it), I totally agree.
Never thought of using coconut milk! Can imagine that also being delicious in overnight oats too.
Oats = fiber, cheese = calcium, egg = protein…I mean, the health just doesn’t end!
Oatmeal = breakfast. Doesn’t matter how much sugar is in it… right? This looks absolutely divine. You could even make some sort of awesome parfait with it!
That looks incredible. Any way I can get more chocolate and oatmeal into my day is a winner for me. Normally I just have unsweetened cocoa powder cooked into my oats, but I have plans to try this out this weekend!
though you profess to not be that crazy abt Italain eats, I am so proud that you’ve discovered the power of mascarpone – I put it in everrrrrything! Best stuff ever. love this!
Please invite me over for this wine drinking cheesecake in oatmeal adventure
Looks awesome!!! The dark chocolate really makes it irresistable!
Omg dessert for breakfast is my favorite. Six out of seven days I would pefer to get up and have cookies or cupcakes or brownies for breakfast.. in fact, after scrambled eggs and toast I crave something sweet hardcore.
Who am I kidding, I crave sweetness after every meal!! Love this and can’t wait to try it… think I could do it with cream cheese? Then I could make it Saturday morning. OMNOMNOM
Love this idea! I make something very similar to this, minus all the chocolate and cheese – but the thought of adding the two just made it a lot more tempting!
I can’t even see right now.
Made it this morning! Delish. Had to substitute a couple of things, like cream cheese for mascarpone (none in the house right now), choc chips for chopped chocolate. But all in all, a nice recipe! Thanks for inspiring me. :)
i am thrilled that you made it already! thank YOU!
This sounds too good to be breakfast. I like the idea of baked oats, too!
I may start having breakfast at every meal!! This looks amazingly good, Jess! :)
Only you could fuse cheesecake and oatmeal together! You’re my hero :)
This looks absolutely decadent! I’m giving this recipe a try this weekend.
Beautiful! I’m thinking maybe a blueberry cheesecake take on this? YUM.
omg… yes.
I love this. Love love love. I’ll be trying it out as soon as it gets colder!
I’ve never had mascarpone cheese in oats before but I like the sound of this. Baked oatmeal is the jam.
STOP IT!! No.. don’t. I love it!
That sounds and looks like a marvelous breakfast! And the dark chocolate definitely makes it healthy :)
I love the wine at breakfast comment. Reminds me of the other day when I dumped the leftover champagne in my OJ- no one was the wiser for it either. Don’t mean to frighten you, but wine at breakfast *may* mean you’re ready for mommy hood. In other news, I’m getting out the oats- this looks delish!
STOP! I count on one good, low fat, super healthy meal each day and that’s breakfast. I’m tired, maybe a bit sick so I just made this for breakfast, mascarpone and all.You have ruined me. And it was good!!
I just made baked oatmeal but there was no cheesecake esque anything. Must change that : )
What the whaaaaaaaa?
I should have had this for breakfast this morning instead of the air that I’m currently feasting on.
Oh my gosh. This needs to happen to my belly right now. Cheesecake and oatmeal are 2 of my favorite foods,and I have been meaning to try marscarpone. Thank you for giving me the best reason ever!!!
Oh gosh, this looks incredible. This makes my typical morning oatmeal look terrible!
Oh my, this sounds delicious!
I’m loving the sound of this dish. Now that would get me eating breakfast every morning!
Good bye healthy eating, hello heaven on earth! ♥
Hey I am totally behind trashed up oatmeal. In fact, I wouldnt have it any other way.
This looks great! I eat oatmeal (almost) daily for breakfast and I am always looking for new versions to change things up. Totally ‘pinning’ this to try soon!
If I were to choose a breakfast that I needed to eat every day of my life, I think that this would be it. This looks GREAT!!
What brand of chocolate did you use for this recipe, if you don’t mind my asking? :)
ghirardelli!
Please tell me you’ve tried steel cut oats? I love the instant packs too..but if you can just wait out the 40 minutes or so, I’m positive you’d love steel cut oats. And I’m guessing you could make them taste even more decadent with this recipe!!!
Oh em gee I am completely obsessing over this right now!
Even though I’m not a fan of oatmeal but this sounds tooo good to pass up
Wow, this looks amazing. dark chocolate and cheesecake in oatmeal? you’ve really outdone yourself. this is incredible. :)
I think your pictures are totally gorgeous. Especially the streaky chocolate in the bottom of the dish. <3 I don't know why, but I love it.
Pinned!
Yummy! I’m wishing I had some mascarpone cheese in my fridge so I could make this for breakfast!