Blueberry Oat Cake
on May 24, 2021, Updated Apr 23, 2024
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Oat cakes are my favorite breakfast treat, and this 🫐 Blueberry Oat Cake does not disappoint. It’s made with wholesome ingredients, like oats, nut milk, egg, and blueberries, and comes together in the 🌀 blender in minutes. This is a cake you can enjoy for breakfast without the afternoon sugar crash. It’s naturally gluten- and dairy-free, and so simple to make vegan.
Why You’ll Love Blueberry Oat Cake
This Blueberry Oat Cake is a total crowd-pleasing breakfast 🌅. As written, the recipe makes one cake, but you can easily scale up to serve your whole family or batch cook for the week. This breakfast cake is really satiating and wholesome, it will keep you full until lunch, without the dreaded sugar crash 📉 that comes with most baked goods. Plus, this couldn’t be simpler to prepare, just throw it all in the blender and bake!
How to Prepare
🔥 First, preheat the oven to 375F (190C).
🍋 Next, add the oats, lemon zest, baking powder, honey, egg, vanilla extract, and nut milk to a blender and then blend until completely incorporated, about 1 minute.
🫗 Now, pour the batter into a ramekin or you can divide it among the wells of a muffin tin.
🫐 Then top the batter with fresh blueberries.
⏲️ Finally, bake for 30 minutes or until the center of the cake is set and no longer jiggly.
Nonna’s Tip 🫐
Any oven-safe dish will work for this Blueberry Breakfast Cake, as long as the batter fills no more than 3/4 of the dish since the batter will rise and expand in the oven.
Variations and Substitutions for Blueberry Oat Cake
- For a subtle nutty flavor, use almond extract instead of vanilla extract.
- For extra sweetness, garnish the baked cakes with a bit of powdered sugar.
- To make this recipe vegan or plant-based, swap out the 🥚 egg for a flax egg or other vegan egg substitute. Use agave or maple syrup instead of honey and your favorite non-dairy milk.
- You can use any plant-based 🥛 milk (or even dairy milk here). I prefer unsweetened almond milk.
- Feel free to use your sweetener of choice here: honey can be swapped with agave, 🍁 maple syrup or date syrup.
- Instead of blueberries, you could make this recipe using raspberries, blackberries or baby 🍓 strawberries.
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Best Served With
- These make an impressive (and adorable) brunch item when served in individual ramekins and garnished with fresh 🍓 berries.
- A side of fresh 🥭 fruit.
- Your favorite breakfast protein: Over Medium Eggs Homemade Breakfast Sausage Recipe, 🥓 bacon, turkey bacon, etc.
Common Questions
Perhaps your cake didn’t rise because your baking powder has expired. Please check the expiration date before mixing into the batter. Expired baking powder will not help your recipe rise properly in the oven, and you’ll have a sad, deflated cake.
Yes, you certainly can make the Blueberry Breakfast Cake vegan. Simply swap out the egg for a flax egg or other vegan egg substitute. Use agave or maple syrup instead of honey and your favorite non-dairy milk.
I love my Vitamix Blender! The size is perfect for my recipes and it’s super powerful. The quality is simply second to none.
You can use any plant-based milk (or even dairy milk here). I prefer unsweetened almond milk.
Feel free to use your sweetener of choice in this Bluberry Breakfast Cake: honey can be swapped with agave, maple syrup, date syrup, etc.
Raspberries or baby (or chopped) strawberries would be delicious instead of blueberries.
Blueberry Oat Cake
Ingredients
- ½ cup rolled oats
- 1 lemon, zested (about 1 tablespoon)
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ½ cup unsweetened almond milk, or any milk
- ¼ cup fresh blueberries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 F (190C).
- Add the oats, lemon zest, baking powder, honey, egg, vanilla extract, and nut milk to a blender and blend until completely incorporated into a batter, about 1 minute.
- Pour the batter into a ramekin or divide it among the wells of a muffin tin. Any oven-safe dish will work, as long as the batter fills no more than 3/4 of the dish (the batter will rise and expand in the oven). Top with the blueberries.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until the center of the cake is set and no longer jiggly.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Well this was a big flop for me. After 55 minutes in the oven the dough in the center was completely raw (pic attached). I doubled the recipe and used the suggested vegan alternatives (flax eggs and maple syrup), in 2 ramekins. All ingredients were freshly purchased. The only thing I did differently was use frozen blueberries instead of fresh. Was that the issue?
Hi Christine, yes that is definitely the issue. I am not plant-based, so I always tell my viewers that if they don’t follow the recipe, they will have to experiment. So sorry this recipe did not work for you with the substitutes that you used.
Hi! This looks like a great recipe! I noticed when I double and triple the recipe on here, the lemon zest measurement remains at 1 lemon / 1 Tbs. I just want to confirm – should this ingredient be doubled/tripled as well?
HI Christine we are working hard on fixing each recipe. As of now only the front conversions work. Anything at the back that is in ML or grams will have to be converted manually.