The tradition of making and eating cakes stems from using animal products like butter, eggs, as well as gluten ingredients. When thinking about a plant-based,
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These cakes are unsweetened, other than the natural sweetness of raisins and fresh strawberries. I also added omega-3’s with chia seeds, which I cooked with the oatmeal from the beginning.
A creamier and slightly sweeter version of these cakes, I later on made these chocolate oatmeal cakes with almond milk, soy milk, and more cocoa powder.
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Doing so helped the chia seeds become more soft in the final result, cooking in the pan then in the oven.
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The recipe yields 8 small cakes, using ramekins. I did 4 with as initially intended.
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Then added unsweetened cocoa powder to the pan, mixed it in, so that the final 4 baked oatmeal cakes would have a chocolaty flavor.
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I hope you enjoy these Strawberry raisin baked oatmeal cakes with chia seeds!
![Cocoa baked oatmeal cake](https://www.nicolaspujol.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cocoa-baked-oatmeal-cake-800x600.jpg)
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Strawberry raisin baked oatmeal cakes with chia seeds
Ingredients
- 2 cups oatmeal (I used steel cut oats)
- 3 cups water
- 2 tbsp chia seeds
- 0.5 tsp vanilla extract
- 6 oz strawberries
- 1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 400 F degrees.
- In a pan, heat the steel-cut oats and chia seeds with water, bring to boil (takes about 5 minutes) then cook on low heat for 5 minutes.
- Cut the strawberries in small chunks, then add them along with raisins and vanilla extract to the pan. Stir and cook on low for another 5 minutes.
- With a large spoon, pour the oatmeal mix into 4 ramekins.
- Add the cocoa powder, stir again, then fill the remaining 4 ramekins.
- Place inside the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
- You can consume them immediately, but the cakes will take more shape by letting them cool down 20 to 30 minutes once out of the oven.
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