It is evident that we should not be eating chocolate cookies for breakfast. Except when we are making homemade cookie cereal from scratch with pure and healthy whole food ingredients. Do not fear, even though the name is suggestive of a cereal I would never purchase at a store, I stayed true to health and flavor as always. Grab a spoon and join me for breakfast!
Not only is this cereal great served up in a bowl with cold milk, you can also munch it as a crispy crunchy snack by the handful. My husband likes it in a bowl with salty peanuts as a snack mix, so do our kids.
My little guy waits patiently to get served…..
My kids had so much fun snacking on this cereal in those teeny tiny bowls.
It was a happy day. I took my daughter to a fun Daisy scouts event while my little guy hung out at home in his pj’s with “dadad.”
Love it when they are sweet to each other….guess the cereal put them in a good mood.
Even our friends who eat gluten free can enjoy this cereal. Use certified gluten free corn and oat flour to be sure your ingredients have no gluten.
This cereal is simple to prepare and you can make it in any quantity you wish. It stores well in your pantry as long as it is in an airtight container.
So next time you want chocolate cookies have them for breakfast.
Do you ever make cereal from scratch?
This recipe is inspired by one I found at Edible Perspective…
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Homemade Breakfast Cereal Links
- Cinnamon Toast Cereal Peas and Thank You
- Cocoa Crunch Edible Perspective
- Crunchy Quinoa Granola Anja’s Food for Thought
- DIY Cereal Edible Perspective
- Grain Free Granola The Food Lover’s Primal Palate
- Homemade Nutty Bran Flakes Willow Bird Baking
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This is heaven. Chocolate cookie cereal made with such excellent ingredients is the best breakfast I could hope for. Bookmarked.
Your little folks are adorable.
A lot better than the bought kind and much more delicious! Your children are so cute.
Cheers,
Rosa
Marla amazing job on this cereal!
So I have seen chickpea flour crackers and cereal sprouting up in the ‘sphere but love that you didn’t do that and went with oat flour and corn flour.
Ironically on my site right now is a re-post of homemade mary’s crackers. I came up with the recipe a year ago before crackers and cereal got “popular”. haha! But mine is just cinnamon and sugar, not chocolate.
I love your cereal base b/c one could adapt it to be savory, sweet but not chocolate, the combos are endless.
Great work and STELLAR photography. As usual 🙂
Averie: You are right all the recipes I saw online called for chickpea flour. I have that flour here, but I love the oat and corn combo. The flavor is awesome. I need to do a “Cinnamon Toast Crunch” concept too. I will check out your post now 😉
This is such a great idea! It will be perfect for my spring break this week! 🙂
What a fabulous idea… I need some of this!
Marla, what a great idea – I would never think to make my own breakfast cereal. What a wonderful mom!
i mean, who WOULDN’T love this? i’m sending this recipe to my sister immediately…she’ll just die 🙂
This cereal looks perfect Marla! My daughter would love this 🙂
Chocolate for breakfast? Ofcourse yes! there is never enough reasons to have chocolate. Lovely recipe Marla and love the action you have used in the pictures for kids!
P.S.- The little guy is a carbon copy of you. So adorable!
Kulsum: I had waaayyy too much fun with actions this weekend as you can tell. I am totally addicted to them. My kids are mini me’s for sure. Especially when they throw tantrums 😉
You cannot beat chocolate for breakfast! What cute kids!
Ok, I better stop what I am doing and make this for my boys today! Love your photos and LOVE this cereal!
Great way to start the day!
What a fantastic idea for a cereal – seriously brilliant.
You sure do know how to make little kids (and big kids) happy! 🙂
I would have never thought to make my own cereal! What a clever, fun idea! I bet your kids absolutely loved this. Great photos and such a creative recipe, Marla! Thanks for sharing and inspiring me to try something new. 🙂
Georgia: They did have so much fun stirring the batter and watching me bake up this breakfast cereal. Well worth the wait for them 🙂
Oh my- your children are gorgeous! This cereal looks sinful. My girls would love it. Any way you can make a healthy cinnamon toast crunch? (uhh… that would be for me :))
YUM! I love that this is gluten-free, thank you for sharing!
I would totally eat this as a snack!
Looks great to me! I want to try it!
What a great cereal idea, I think anyone would enjoy starting their day out with that! 🙂
I love that you made cereal! I haven’t tackled that one, yet, aside from granola, but you’ve inspired me to try. Fabulous, Marla!
This sounds so yummy!! I love the idea of homemade breakfast cereal. So creative 🙂
I’ll bet your kids said, “You are the best mum in the whole world” when you served this to them. What fun!
Chocolate cookie cereal, how cool! My daughter is looking over my shoulder, saying that we must make it right away 🙂
This has got to be one of your best yet! Cookies that are good for you? As cereal? In milk!?
Oh, heaven, Marla! You’re always such a star when it comes to developing innovative and delicious recipes. I would love a small bowl — OK, a big bowl — of these crunchies with my morning coffee. Just wonderful!
Chocolate cookies as a cereal, that’s amazing. A few months
ago, I made chocolate crumble for verrine and my leftovers are used
for breakfast as cereal.
Victor: Little would you know you just taught me a new word. I had not a clue what a verrine was. Now I do and I will never forget. Love that you ate the chocolate crumbles as breakfast cereal. I bet they were amazing!
My daughter would adore these, as would I. The only homemade cereal I’ve made is granola, but you’ve inspired me to broaden my horizons!
Fabulous! I seriously can’t wait to try this. Yummy
I’ve never made my own cereal before! I didn’t even know
that it was a possibilty. Definately want to try this
recipe
wow, Marla – this is a crazy good idea. There is so much
you can do with this and I think my kids would kiss me all over if
I gave them this for breakfast! xx
Cookies for breakfast! Yum! I’m happy to eat a bowl of cookies for breakfast 😉 I can always count on you to come up with great ideas like this one.
I actually really hate storebought chocolate cereals because, well. If I want to eat chocolate, then I want to eat CHOCOLATE…not imitation chocolate. These sound amazing though! All good quality ingredients that you can feel good about…and delicious to boot!
Joanne: I am with you. Pre-packaged store bought chocolate cereals have way too much sugar and I can’t even taste the chocolate. These little squares are rich tasting and I bet you can add some more cocoa powder to up that chocolate buzz. Besides, I can’t really find the “health” in the packaged stuff.
This is genius! I could see kids and adults loving this for breakfast. 🙂
What a great breakfast! I know I would love a little bowl of this.
I want to make this! probably a dumb question, but is corn flour differen’t than cornmeal?
How interesting, I’d never have thought of cookie cereal and homemade at that! Nice~
Fun recipe! I am not much of a cereal eater, but I’d definitely snack on this. 🙂
What great pictures!!!!! The cereal looks absolutely delicious. Cannot wait to try it out.
I LOVE your ingenuity and your passion and fervour regarding your focus on health and nutritious, Marla, but I must say that I do believe it is critical that we work to change the palate of this new generation to not expect these kinds of flavours at the breakfast table.
🙂
Valerie
XO
Valerie: Thanks for your comment. I agree that the mass marketing of sugar filled cereals is disgraceful. As you said (and you know me well by now) I was being whimsical with the creation of this recipe. The meaning behind it is that food can be real, tasty and fun and much more so with healthy whole food ingredients. If I had named the recipe “Antioxidant Whole Grain Squares” perhaps it would have appeared a bit more health driven. But then it wouldn’t sound nearly as fun 😉
My goal is to provide delicious, whole food recipes to inspire healthy lives. Thankfully an occasional bowl of this cereal will keep us on this path.
I love that you raise strong awareness and encourage dialogue with me and our fellow foodies, this is what it’s all about. xo
Your kids are super cute 🙂 Cookies for breakfast sounds
yum!
Other than granola, I’ve never made my own cereal! This looks like it would be great in a snack mix. 🙂
Now this is the kind of breakfast cereal I like! I made a batch similar to edible perspectives and ended up eating it all off the tray! So good. I can’t wait to try yours Marla. Guess we both had breakfast cereal on our brains 🙂
Heather: I figured you would have made a cereal like this. Awesome for all those tough workouts. A great pre or post recovery meal with the healthy carbs, little bit of fat and protein too.
Oh yum Marla! Who needs that boxed stuff when you can have this? A great treat with milk or without….no wonder your kids and hubby like this cereal. Looks delicious and love that it’s gluten-free too. Can’t wait to try!
Love the pictures of your little ones too! So cute!!
Heather: This would be a great snack mix to take along for the kids. Great for travel, hikes and theme parks. Add more protein and healthy fat with some nuts, sunflower seeds etc. Some raisins tossed in would be yummy too.
I would love a bowl of this for breakfast. It looks wonderful and wholesome. I am a total believer that breakfast sets your mood for the rest of the day. I just have to be more disciplined to make it everyday before I head off to work. Your children are beautiful.
I cannot wait to try these- they seem to good to be true!
What an awesome recipe!
Cookies should always be homemade with high quality, preferably natural ingredients 🙂
This looks like such an indulgent and decadent breakfast – what a great treat!
i do believe that you should be nominated for ‘Mom of the
Year’ – all the kids would vote for you!!! this is a breakfast
cereal i can get behind!
oh wow. It’s time for dessert over here and I want some
now!
Marla, I am so behind–this is the first I’ve seen your new site (sorry) and it looks g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s! Lovely photos! Great recipe! Lots of exclamation points!! Hope you are enjoying spring. That is, if you can differentiate the seasons. I’m sure you scored some serious points with this breakfast. Very nice, indeed.
This look delicious! I have honestly never thought to make
my own cereal. I would love to figure out how to make a healthy
version of Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch…if that’s even
possible….hehe 🙂
What a cool recipe! And I LOVE those shots of your angels… they are just so adorable!!
Amanda: I am so happy to see you back! I missed you bunches. How is little Eddie doing?? xo
I remember being in Daisy’s! It was so much fun!
You cereal looks divine! LOVE Chocolate! 😀
Fabulous! This is too good to be true…chocolate for
breakfast.
If i dont have corn flower is there another flour I could use?? i want to make this so much!!
Nicole: You can use all oat flour if you do not have the corn. You should still end up with great results. Come report back if you try 🙂
Marla, your kids are so beautiful. That one of your son waiting is just precious.
And I love the cereal. What a perfect idea!
i would love to make this for my kids but one has a peanut/nut allergy… any suggestions on altering it? thx!
Hi Bobbie, how about trying sunflower seed butter? Love that stuff!
i’ll try it… thanks!
Cute photos!! So glad the kiddos enjoyed the cereal!
Homemade cereal…LOVE THIS! Gonna try it tomorrow! So excited!
This look so tasty!!! Reminds me of pb coco puffs….but healthy!
What an awesome idea and I love that the recipe doesn’t use many weird/hard-to-get ingredients. 🙂
Sorry to ask, but is there anything I can replace the corn flour with? This sounds so great otherwise… thanks! 🙂
Perhaps you can try more oat flour?
Would it be alright to substitute regular all-purpose or whole grain flour for the oat/corn flour?
It seemed like a fun, cool idea.. until I actually made the cereal. I followed all the steps and used the same ingredients and it ended up tasting extremely chalky and bitter. I wouldn’t recommend this recipe unless you plan to add a pile of sugar into the mix to fix it..
Thanks for sharing Willow!
Just made this and to my relief it came out great! I tried to make my own pop tarts once… not so good. Most things I try to bake are disasters. But this was super easy and idiot proof 😀 When I took it out of the oven the first time, it had cracked in a lot of spots and my heart fell, I thought I had messed up yet another fun recipe with my bad baking curse. But I just cut it into strips as the recipe said and couldn’t tell the difference. I did cheat and add a ton of sugar, so maybe not so healthy, but it sure is yummy!
Strange question but is there a way to make these with regular flour and granulated sugar. We don’t need to eat gluten free but I have been starting to make a lot of foods instead of buying them. Thanks!