When the temperatures start dropping, I crave warm, cozy breakfasts. On this particular day, I had been out braving the cold on a drizzly morning run, the wind had blown me home through the front door, and my stomach was rumbling. I needed a warm, filling, and satisfying breakfast. Enter Hearty Autumn Stovetop Oatmeal.
Loaded with oatmeal, seeds, peanut butter, and chopped dates for sweetness, these Oatmeal Date Breakfast Cookies are a portable, healthy breakfast or snack you can stash in your freezer and take to go.
Cookies for breakfast!!!
I don’t know about you, but my office has a giant bowl of those mini Halloween chocolate bars sitting at the front desk, and every day it calls to me, “Eeeeeeaatttt me. Eeaaattt me!” (Side note: do you remember that Sex and the City scene where the sandwich calls “Eat me!” to Miranda?! The best.)
These Quick Orange Date Blender Muffins are my absolute go-to muffin recipe. They are so simple to throw together - the orange (with peel on!) and orange juice get mixed in your blender, then blended with the egg and butter. The few dry ingredients are mixed in a large bowl, the wet ingredients are added and quickly stirred, and BANG you have muffins!
Dates add a pleasing sweetness to the tangy orange - if you don’t have dates on hand, then I’ve made this recipe many times with dried cranberries instead.