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This viral TikTok hack will forever change how you eat your porridge!

Matilda Hansson

This viral TikTok trend is turning your plain old morning porridge into a delicious healthy cake and we're all about it! Find out how to make it down below.

Steel cut oat porridge is perhaps the most boring sentence known to mankind, but the star inventors of TikTok have now hit us with a viral recipe hack that turns your morning porridge into a mini cake and we will never make porridge the same way ever again! Not only does this recipe make your morning porridge taste like cake, it's actually healthy, whoever said you can have your cake and eat it clearly never made baked oats. It's super simple to make just follow these easy steps!

How to make it!

This is the recipe that started it all, of course you make it in any variation you like. Substitute the egg for some chia or flax seeds for a vegan friendly alternative.

Ingredients:

  • 45g oats blended
  • 35ml milk of your choice
  • ½ ripe banana
  • 1 egg (or substitute)
  • 1 Tablespoon golden syrup or maple syrup
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • Pinch of cinnamon
  • Pinch of sea salt
  • 2 Tablespoons of chopped chocolate

Toppings: chopped up chocolate or a chocolate or peanut butter drizzle.

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Preheat oven to 180°c
  2. Blend: Begin with blending your oats until they become a fine flour, then add the rest of the ingredients except for the chocolate. Blend until fluffy and fully combined. Fold in your chopped up chocolate.
  3. Bake: Pour your batter into a greased portion sized baking dish. Top with extra chocolate chips and bake at 180°c for 10 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
  4. Serve: Let cool and then top it off with any topping you like! We suggest peanut butter och chocolate drizzle with some fresh fruits and chopped up chocolate.

Variations

There are countless variations to try but here are some off the top of our head that sound lush!

  • Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
  • Salted caramel with dark chocolate
  • Strawberry cake with white chocolate frosting
  • Peanut butter cake with banana and chocolate drizzle
  • Orange chocolate cake with chocolate drizzle and fresh orange slices
  • Nutella cake with nutella drizzle, whipped cream and banana
  • Lemon and poppy cake with a cream cheese frosting

There are endless variations to this dish so use whatever you fancy and have a go, we promise you'll be obsessed and so will your family!

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