Now you can eat breakfast like it’s your birthday every day with this Birthday Cake Granola! You won’t guess it’s healthy! Also gluten-free and vegan!
Take me back to my grade school and middle school days where granola was basically life. What was the best breakfast for me during those awkward tween years? A giant bowl of “healthy” granola that could feed a small country. Oh, I ate the whole box in two days? Oops. “Mom, we’re out of granola. Can you buy more?” <<<<<<<My life on repeat during this stage in my life.
I actually thought those sugary clumps with the sugar coasted raisins were healthy. But I also thought healthy meant you weren’t full after you ate a meal. This elephant-sized bowl of granola filled my up for maybe two hours, if that. I ate breakfast around 7 am and lunch was at 1 pm, so my stomach was rumbling since 9 am. So embarrassing to say the least.
Ok ok enough with this sad story, let me let go of negative Nancy for a sec and give you the details of this recipe. Now I still love me some granola, but I make it so I can make it real healthy, not fake healthy. Yes I get it, Birthday Cake Granola doesn’t sound too promising, after all it’s got cake in the title. But I promise it’s one of the healthiest granola recipes you’ll ever eat.
Let me break down the ingredient list:
toasted gluten-free oats
chia seeds
flax seeds
cashew butter
banana
butter extract
vanilla extract
cashews
white chocolate chips
rainbow sprinkles
Birthday Cake Granola
Cake flavored clusters of granola are joined with cashews, rainbow sprinkles and white chocolate chips to create the breakfast of your dreams! Now you can eat breakfast like it’s your birthday everyday! What else could you ask for?
Birthday Cake Granola
Ingredients
- 2 cups Gluten-free Old Fashioned Oats
- 1/4 cup chia seeds
- 1/4 cup flax seeds
- 1/2 cup chopped cashews
- 1/3 cup cashew butter
- 1/2 ripe banana mashed
- 1/4 cup almond milk
- 1/4 tsp. butter extract
- 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
- sprinkles
- vegan white chocolate chips optional
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place oats on a cooking sheet and bake for 10 minutes or until slightly toasted. Let cool and place in a bowl with flaxseed, chia seeds and cashews.
- In a separate small bowl combine cashew butter, banana, milk and extracts. Mix well.
- Add cashew butter mixture to oat mixture and mix until well combined. Mix in sprinkles.
- Place on a cooking sheet lined with parchment paper. Spread out into a single layer.
- Bake for about 15 minutes or until toasted.
- Let cool then mix in white chocolate chips, if using.
- Enjoy!
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place oats on a cooking sheet and bake for 10 minutes, or until slightly toasted. Let cool and place in a bowl with flaxseed, chia seeds and cashews.
- In a separate small bowl, combine cashew butter, banana, milk and extracts. Mix well.
- Add cashew butter mixture to oat mixture and mix until well combined. Mix in sprinkles.
- Place on a cooking sheet lined with parchment paper. Spread out into a single layer.
- Bake for about 15 minutes, or until toasted.
- Let cool, then mix in white chocolate chips, if using.
- Enjoy!
- Store in an air-tight container for up to 1 week.
*For vegan friendly sprinkles, check out Feasting on Fruit to see her all-natural recipe!
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Questions of the day:
What was your favorite breakfast when you were younger?
Store bought or homemade granola?
This is so festive! And sounds delicious. Must try soon. Or maybe for my birthday 🙂
ah yummmy!! I want this. Birthday cake and granola are two of my fav things 😉
Birthday cake is 100% the best flavour of anything. I wish I could buy this straight from you right now.
I’m drooling over these pictures thinking about how pretty this granola would look in my oatmeal. Uhhh this has to happen….ASAP!!
Aww man, if I wasn’t dog tired and ready to relax tonight, I would so make this for my birthday tomorrow! I still might make it a day or two late 😉
Looks delicious!
I LOVE THIS!!!! I never thought of making birthday cake granola!! Such a great idea.
WOW. Birthday cake granola? You get the award for the most creative granola I’ve ever seen; it looks exactly like that cake mix with those sprinkles mixed in; the funfetti kind, except it’s probably so much more filling and yummy.
This granola is so cheerful! I love to add sprinkles to anything.
When you put the candle in the top–omg the icing on the (metaphorical but actually totally unnecessary because we have b-day granola) cake!!! Hahaha I love it 😀 With cashew butter, vanilla, and butter extract the only giveaway it’s not cake will be the crunchy delicious texture I have a feeling. This is genius, and I just need to shout…SPRINKLES!!
Adorable! Cutest birthday breakfast I could imagine. And now I know that there are healthier sprinkles available!
I love this idea! I think I’ve only made granola once, probably because I can’t stop eating it once I start. I like the healthy twist here, though, and am pinning it for later.
Hi Bethany & Rachel,
Granola is always a sure winner and for a birthday cake it sounds like the perfect healthy but tasty treat. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays. Pinned & tweeted!
Say whaaaaaaaaaaat! This looks INSANELY good! We only ever have homemade granola as it’s all Jesse will eat for breakfast, however, when I was a kid I only ever ate toast for breakfast! I hateeed cereal!
Um healthy granola that tastes like birthday cake?!?! That I can have for breakfast? Oh yes please! Want this 🙂
Without a doubt, this is the best granola I’ve ever seen.
What a creative idea! We always have granola in the house (sometimes store bought, sometimes homemade). This will be fun to try!
Birthday cake granola for the win! I’d celebrate with this every day.
This is genius!!! I would never even have thought of a birthday cake take on granola! Looks delicious!
Wow!! This is Really Incredible… Granola Cakes