Baked Breakfast Cereals (Vegan)

• Sponsor: Calgary.isGreen
• Author: Marinus Hoogendoorn

Prep-time: 15 min      Cooking time: 20 min      Calories: 268.4       

Cereals can become boring at times. Just pour some milk and that’s it. This recipe has interesting twists, firstly the tofu gives you a protein boost, secondly you can grab a slice and run out the door when you’re running out of time and thirdly the kids will love this.

Ingredients      Serves 4

• 1 cup breakfast cereals
• 1/3 cup almond flour
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• 3 tbsp raw cane sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon powder
• ¾ cup silken tofu + 1tbsp corn starch
• ½ cup rice milk
• 2 tbsp melted vegan margarine
• 1 cup any fruit for topping

Method

• Pre-heat an oven to 425 F
• Combine the breakfast cereals with the flour, sugar, cinnamon powder salt and baking powder in a mixing bowl. You can crush the cereals a bit if you like the pieces smaller.
• Blend the tofu with the milk, corn starch and melted margarine in an up-right blender and transfer to a separate bowl.
• Lightly grease an 8 inch square baking pan.
• Add the tofu/ milk mixture to the flour mix and combine.
• Ladle the mix into the baking pan and bake in the per-heated oven for 18 to 20 minutes.
• Allow cooling for 10 minutes before slicing.
• Top each slice with the mixed fruit.
• Serve warm or cold

Nutritional values are manually calculated and based on the ingredients specified.

Nutritional value per serving:

• Calories: 268.4
• Fat: 15.2 g
• Saturated Fat: 1.6 g
• Sodium: 94.3mg
• Carbohydrate 29.8 g
• Protein: 5.1 g
• Dietary fiber: 1.8 g