Boy do I have fond memories creating this recipe! The idea, the inspiration hit one summer evening. I wanted something “cakey” for breakfast the next day, but not pancakes (I know, shocking!). So if this creation turned out okay in the oven then I knew prime photographing time was dwindling. This recipe would be a race with the setting sun. I whole-heartedly accepted the challenge though, I knew this one would be a winner. Why not bake it in the morning? Uh, because I’m hungry when I wake-up and baking would take to long!
However, I managed to snap a few right under the window next to the kitchen sink. (Mind you, this lighting conundrum would happen multiple times that summer. I just never learn.) I got so many that I couldn’t choose which ones to edit and post here today…so be prepared for a bombardment of yummy photos ahead!
I really don’t know what to call this little dish either. Breakfast bake was what I originally planned, then I though baked mug cake, but really this is more of a baked pancake. So I decided to call it just a breakfast cake! Snickerdoodle style! Perfect for the holidays, right? Right!
What I have written on the little scrap of paper I used to jot down the recipe was “SnickerDoodle B-Fast Bake”. Exactly like that. You should see these millions of jotted down recipes on scraps of colored notepad paper, stickys, ripped off corners of random papers. It’s really organized 😉 Just a bunch of random measurements, notes, lines, arrows, but barely any directions. I just remember all that in my head. Haha!
I’ll be one of those old grandmothers with all the recipes that the family will never be able to recreate of decipher. I’m completely a cook at heart. Just throw this, that, and a pinch of these in and done! Even when I’m baking (which can be risky). Call it laziness or call it skill 😉 I say the latter!
Anyway, I love snickerdoodles, or at least the idea of them! Warm, cakey, cinnamon love! Count me in! All in! Cinnamon is my favorite spice as you know. I go through the bottles like I go through sweet potatoes. Every day and in every way! So a snickerdoodle just seems like an obvious flavor choice for me. Plus, it’s festive and Christmasy. I guess that’s the sign of a goof food blogger too! Making out of season recipes to post for when they’re in season. But I am still behind. I still have a few pumpkin recipes to post! I just didn’t want to go recipe crazy and run out while I was away at college with no way of making really good new ones!
Enough of this blabber! Time to just give you the damn recipe! O and I felt pretty bad ass using cream of tartar here. Snickerdoodles always have it. I don’t know what it does, but I bought a little bottle just for the purpose of this recipe.
Snickerdoodle Breakfast Cake
Ingredients: (serves 1)
+ 3 TB Millet Flour
+ 2 TB Gluten-Free All Purpose
+ 2 TB Mashed Ripe Banana
+ 1 Packet of Stevia
+ 1/4 Tsp Cream Of Tartar
+ 1/4 Tsp Baking Powder
+ 1/4 Tsp Baking Soda
+ 1/4 Tsp Cinnamon (plus more for topping)
+ 1/4 Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract
+ 1/4 Cup of Unsweetened Almond Milk (or other non-dairy milk)
Optional Vanilla Cinnamon Frosting:
+ 1/4 Tsp Cinnamon
+ 1 TB Vanilla Protein Powder
+ 2-3 TB Water
Directions:
+ Preheat an oven to 350ºF.
+ In a lightly oiled ramekin, combine all ingredients in the order listed above. Mix until a doughy mixture forms.
+ Bake the mixture in the oven for about 20 minutes. A toothpick should come out clean when done.
+ Stir up the vanilla frosting (if using), pour on top of the cake. You can also just top it with cinnamon…or nut butter 😉
+ You can also refrigerate this overnight to enjoy a cold cake in the morning or heat it up for a minute in the microwave like I did!
This is just screaming Christmas to me right now! Why are all the amazing flavors like snickerdoodle, peppermint, peppermint mocha, gingerbread, etc. only associated with the holidays? Screw that! I’m going to keep making my festive fare all year-round! Be a food rebel!
So tell me:
+ You could only pick from these: snickerdoodle, gingerbread, or peppermint. Which do you choose? Snickerdoodle!
+ How do you jot down recipes you’re making? Mine are also always gross, wet, and stained with food, haha!
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I love this idea for a breakfast cake!! Thank you so much for linking up at Tasty Tuesday! Your recipe has been pinned to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board! Please join us again this week!
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Thanks Steph!
This looks great! Thanks for linking up last week with SNF! Featured and pinned to our party board!
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Thank you so much my friend 🙂
Oh man, does this ever sound good!!! Thank you so much for sharing this over at Healthy Vegan Friday, it is being featured this week =) I’ve also pinned this bad boy to our pinterest board. Thank you for all of your awesome-sauce contributions, Rebecca.
ps. I’m having such a hard time getting all of my blog recipe pictures taken during the day. Sometimes inspiration hits at night and I get dark, ugly pics. Ah well ;p
Thanks Kimmy 😉
That’s why I made this like not in the morning when I ate it :/ I have to make pancakes and things at 2pm so I have lighting and then wait till the next day to eat them! Torture!
Your cake sounds amazing. Thanks for sharing at The Weekend Social. Please come and link up again Thursday, Jan. 1st 9:00 PM EST. Happy New Year! http://www.theKitchenChopper.com Pinned!
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Thanks friend!
Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays Party! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! 🙂 I can’t wait to see what you share next time!
-Cindy
Thanks!
Beautiful! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays, Merry Christmas x
Thank you! Merry Christmas!
Hi I’m popping over from How To Get Organized At Home, I just wanted to say thanks for sharing this looks lovely I can’t wait to try it.
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Thanks Sharon!
oh man we wish we saw this earlier as we would of made it for breakfast. Instead we had pumpkin donuts 😉
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Haha, well pumpkin donuts sound like a winner too 😉
How delicious for Christmas morning! Thank you so much for linking up at Tasty Tuesday! Your recipe has been pinned to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board! Please join us again this week!
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Thank you!
Hi Rebecca,
I pick peppermint because I love the smell and taste of peppermint. My recipes are also covered with food and I jot them down on a piece of paper if I need to do them fast and then put them on my Word program on my computer and print them. This sounds delicious. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays. Pinned & twitted. Have a wonderful, healthy, happy and blessed Christmas.
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Haha, precise process! I just keep the messy scraps until write up the post!
Merry Christmas to you too my friend! XOXO
Yum…this looks so good and healthy too to start your day. I will have to give this recipe a try. I wish you a Merry Christmas, too.
Thanks friend! I hope you do 🙂
Merry Christmas!!!
Wow never heard of snickerdoodle before, this looks delicious! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays
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What!?
I love snickerdoodle ANYTHING. This looks amazing. And gluten-free for me. YAY!
Ah yes, me too 😉 Really anything with cinnamon!
Gluten-Free Love <3
i’m all for eating cake at breakfast, pan or otherwise. i love that you’ve created a new way to do that… and snickerdoodle?! who can say no?
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Right!? If you say no to this….there must be a problem, haha!
Lovely recipe and pics. Pinned to my board. Kitchen Dreaming’s Party
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Thanks my friend!
You had me at CAKE for breakfast! This looks so delicious- and healthy! Can’t wait to try it~
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Haha, thank you Alex! 🙂
YUM! I love sickerdoodle and this looks SOOO yummy!
Thanks for sharing
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Thanks Laura! XOXO
I’m bad with recipes, I usually work from a recipe that I’ve found and alter it (often significantly) but never write down the alterations!
At least you can refer people to your blog for the recipes!
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If you alter recipes and make them totally your own, then you’re totally golden!
Haha, yes, the blog is true!
I love the name! It looks so tasty as well, a great way to start the day
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A great and joyful way 😉
This looks amazing Rebecca. Do you know what substitution for millet flour would work without changing the texture of the recipe? I’d love to make this on Saturday 🙂
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You can really just use more all-purpose! I just like to get fancy with my flour mixes! 🙂
Great! I know sometimes different flours change the texture of a recipe so I thought I’d ask. Thanks!
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Yummo! This looks AMAZING! I loveeee me some breakfast bakes!
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I thought of you so much when I was making this! You’re my baked breakfast inspiration 😉
life just got a whole lot better!!!
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Haha! Yes it did 😉
yum yuM yUM YUM!!!! Looks so absolutely perfect for breakfast! But then again, I’ve always loved the idea of cake for breakfast. 🙂
~jules
Haha! Thank you! Cake for breakfast is my middle name 😉
Cake for breakfast! Yum!
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Yes! 😉
That looks delicious!
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I love this! I just realized I’ve never made Snickerdoolde cookies… but maybe I’ll just go right for the cake!
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Yea…cookies are so Christmas 2013…CAKE is this year’s thing!
Cake for breakfast is pure genius. This sounds amazing!
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Life doesn’t get any better than cake for breakfast 😉
I love snickerdoodle cookies so I KNOW I would LOVE this cake!!!
Of course! How could you not!!!
I do love snickerdoodles and breakfast cake and cookies are always calling my name! As I said on Pinterest, Rebecca, I’d have to add some of that icing, too. 😉
xo,
Shirley
The icing/frosting is the best part 😉 Plus the loads of cinnamon you have to add!
this looks and sounds delish! A kiss of cinnamon makes everything better doesn’t it ;o)
Yaitza recently posted…Almond Sesame Christmas Cookies
Haha, yes it does! Cinnamon always puts me in a good mood!
yum! I need a little (or a lot) more snickerdoodle in my life!
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Snickerdoodle is the best! This looks great!
It so is! Thanks!
I think I would need to eat about 10 of those 😉
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And that’s where having only 1 ramekin is the problem for me!
Oh this sounds YUMMY!!
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Thank you!
Ha – I call it skill for sure! Definitely not laziness!
Prior to starting my blog, I was a huge fan of “a pinch of and dash of and shake of” measurements – the blog was actually my therapy for rectifying my recipe “issues” 🙂
This cake/breakfast bake is simply fantastic!
Hahaha! I still cook like that though… Really I just eye-ball everything and make-up exact measurements for the blog! 😛 CONFESSION!
I LOVE Snickerdoodle and I love the word itself 🙂 This is absolutely AWESOME!
Thanks for sharing with the Tasty Tuesday linkup, Rebecca.
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Hahaha, it is a fun word! I wonder why it’s called that?!
No idea 🙂 But it’s just such a delicious word to pronounce, isn’t it? 🙂
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Yum, this sounds super tasty! Gives me an excuse to eat cake for breakfast 😉 I think I’ll have to go with gingerbread, though. Snickerdoodle and peppermint are great, but tis the season and I want some gingerbread!
genevieve @ gratitude & greens recently posted…Gluten-Free Vanilla + Cinnamon Walnut Cookies
I haven’t had anything gingerbread….yet, this season. It’s shocking! I feel like I’m breaking the law!
We had similar train of thoughts today when posting a “cake” that can be eaten for breakfast! But I LOVE the cinnamon flava 🙂 mmmm.
http://freshfitnhealthy.com/2014/12/chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-mugcake-gf-df/
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I eat A LOT of “cake” breakfast! They are the best, right!
Snickerdoodles are one of my favorite cookies, such a fun flavor! And my recipes are always greasy-food stained as well 🙂 Also, your photos of this are gorgeous!
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They are the best! Just so warm,, soft, buttery, and CINNAMONY!
Haha, thank you! XOXO
Yum! Snickerdoodle is my favorite 🙂 I just love all things cinnamon!! My recipes always have random stains and scribbles from when I am trying out new recipes. They always manage to get some sort of food splash or drip on them! ha!
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Cinnamon love!
Messy strained recipe scraps just prove you’re a foodie and cook!
I only “steal” recipes from other people…but they get all messy when I’m making the food. Does that count? #WIAW
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Haha, what?
I love your creative spirit Rebecca!
“You could only pick from these: snickerdoodle, gingerbread, or peppermint. Which do you choose? Snickerdoodle!”
I would have to choose gingerbread!
+ How do you jot down recipes you’re making? Mine are also always gross, wet, and stained with food, haha!
I have a collection of post it notes all over my desk, but once I get them into my computer I toss them.
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If it is a chewy soft gingerbread man, or actual gingerbread, then yea…that’s damn good and it would be hard to choose!
I keep all mine in a pocket I made out of staples and a piece of notebook paper! Then then I write the post, I toss the note too! Hahaha 😉
This would get me into sooo much trouble, but it looks amazing! <3 🙂
It’s super healthy! No trouble here…just festive breakfast love!
I do ever so want this Snickerdoodle Bake right here right now!! Calling it a B-Fast Bake makes it seem kinda hipster, like that should be its DJ name.
P.S. I really have no clue what cream of tartar does either 😉 I should have paid more attention to Alton Brown because I know he talks about it.
Hahaha! Breakfasts should all have really “hipster” dorky names! It just adds to the amazing 😉
Alton is a food GOD! He knows IT ALL!
Yummmm!
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Yum x10000 😉
Looks like a yummy way to start the day! 🙂
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Sure is!
Good gracious I need this in my life!
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Yes! Yes, we ALL do!
Wow, that looks delicious! I love snickerdoodle but I think I might have to go with gingerbread if I could only have one 🙂
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I like gingerbread, but sometimes, I just don’t like all the ginger and cloves together. I’d be much happier with my lovely cinnamon!
I would pick snickerdoodle too! I put cinnamon on everything!
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Cinnamon is the ULTIMATE spice!
how did you know sinckerdoodle was my favorite? YUM
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Because it’s mine too, all the way!
I love Gingerbread and Snickerdoodble. It’s so perfect that this is one serving. Thanks, Rebecca!
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We should just make a really cinnamony gingerbread and we would have the best of both worlds 😉
I’m drooling! I’m off to order some millet flour!
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Millet is fun! Really light and subtly sweet!
((whispers)) peppermint!
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Peppermint is good, but more as a beverage than a food!
I heart you. <3 Snickerdoodles are my favorite! Any suggestions on substitutions with the millet flour if I don't have any of that? 😡
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Just use ALL all purpose!
Ah, sweet! 😛 Thanks, and I can’t wait to try this out!
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SNICKERDOODLE all the way!
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Nothing beats the CINNAMON!
Love this recipe! I make a similar Snickerdoodle Baked Oatmeal in an individual serving size, and it’s one of my go-to breakfasts at this time of year. It’s fun to feel like you’re eating a “treat” for breakfast!
Hope you’re having a relaxing trip home!
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It’s so fun to start the day with a touch of the sweet festive feel of the season!
Thanks Blair!