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Breakfast With A Side Of Chocolate

January 3, 2014 by Joy the Baker 42 Comments

breakfast with a side of chocolate

I like that we’re slowly easing into this year.  It feels right.  I’ve been hanging out in New Orleans for the week plotting my steps for 2014.  Well… plotting as much as one can plot.  I want to leave room for surprises.  Those are inevitable, and mostly welcome.

While I’ve been daydreaming, I’ve been scrolling through my site just to find my footing.  Sometimes I get caught up in creating without taking a moment to look back at all of the treats I’ve made.  Today I think we should focus on Breakfast and Chocolate.  Essentials.

I’m really excited about this coming year.  It feels like a blessing.  Coming up I think we should talk about birthday cake, I want to show your more Bonkers Awesome videos, we should talk about letter writing, salt in baking, and meatballs.  I’m also taking a trip to Uganda with Compassion International at the end of January!  You’ll definitely hear more about that soon!

For now.  Let’s breakfast and let’s chocolate as we continue this ease into 2014.

Whole Grain Waffles with Millet, Poppy, Sunflower, and Flax

Breakfast is, hands down, my favorite meal of the day.  It’s so great I’m convinced it can be eaten at nearly any hour of the day.  My favorite breakfasts range from the pretty healthy to pretty-dang indulgent.  Here are a few!

Blackberry Apricot Sunflower Oatmeal  Let’s start with a big bowl of warmth and health!  I love that this oatmeal has both fresh and dried fruit. It’s totally approachable and just the right amount of fancy.

Whole Grain Waffles with Millet, Poppy, Sunflower, and Flax  I love LOVE love waffles.  I make them on the weekends and find myself eating them all week long, as toast, as sandwich bread, as standing-in-the-kitchen-snacks.  These waffles are hearty and packed with seeds,  They’re great stacked with maple syrup, and also pretty wonderful as bread for a ham sandwich.

Toasted Oat and Coconut Muesli  Call it an oat-kick!  I went on a Muesli bender earlier last year.  I would take a handful of Muesli top it with frozen berries and almond milk and let it rest in the refrigerator overnight.  In the morning I’d have a fruity, chilled, soaked oat breakfast.  Seriously healthy and delicious!

Browned Butter Baked Doughnuts  Doughnuts reign supreme always and forever.  These baked doughnuts are soft and sweet.  They’re basically doughnut shaped cupcakes with chocolate glaze and sprinkles.  Serve with coffee.  Totally breakfast.

Brown Butter Banana Bread with Rum and Coconut  I will put brown butter into everything I can.  Count on it.  Rum and coconut help too, as they always do, as they always do.

Mushroom and Brussels Sprout Hash Savory breakfast is the way to go.  Savory breakfast makes room for breakfast dessert (Browned Butter Baked Doughnuts).  It’s also nice to get a few vegetables at the start of the day.  Mushrooms are softened and browned.  Brussels sprouts are shredded and sautéed.  Add an egg and breakfast feels pretty easy! 

Chocolate Hazelnut Pudding

Chocolate Hazelnut Pudding   Chocolate pudding is up there on my list of comfort foods.  Up there with french fries, rice pudding, and other carb loaded indulgences.  This chocolate pudding is creamy, rich, and topped with golden roasted hazelnuts.  Beyond!

Chocolate Beet Cake with Beet Cream Cheese Frosting Just like I’ll sneak brown butter into your breakfast, I’ll also wedge beets (yea, the vegetable) into your dessert.  I made this beet cake a few years back and it still holds up as TOTALLY AWESOME!  Beets are used to moisten the chocolate cake and tint the cream cheese frosting.  Beyond the moisture and color, the beets are undetectable as beets.  Cross my heart!

Chocolate Orange Cream Cheese Pound Cake  This pound cake recipe has been in my family for years and years.  I add chocolate and orange because I think it’s delicious and I like to occasionally stress my dad out.  So, there’s that.

Salty Sesame and Dark Chocolate Cookies  Chocolate, sesame, and salt… because yes I added soy sauce to these cookies!  Chocolate chip cookies with a major enhancement!  These are some of my favorites!

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  1. Gabby

    January 4, 2014 at 8:57 pm

    I agree with 100% of your words on breakfast. All day, every day.

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  2. meganmarie013

    January 4, 2014 at 5:57 pm

    I love this.

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  3. Dana

    January 4, 2014 at 3:52 pm

    I like to have chocolate for breakfast. The best way to start the day!

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  4. Carla @ Gluten Free Recipe Box

    January 4, 2014 at 1:24 pm

    Yum!…chocolate hazel nut pudding! I love your site! I often convert your recipes to gluten-free. Thank you for all that you share and the research that goes behind it all.

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  5. Andrea @ The Skinny Chronicles

    January 3, 2014 at 11:20 pm

    You just inspired me to buy a waffle maker! Looking forward to some new breakfast variety.

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  6. Sara

    January 3, 2014 at 8:54 pm

    I worked with a Compassion site in Uganda during the Peace Corps! I’d love to know what area you’re heading to…anywhere near Masaka?

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  7. Monica

    January 3, 2014 at 8:19 pm

    So awesome! We had a snow day today and my son & I made the baked donuts! Such fun and tasty. We saved the extra glaze as a “dip” so it was fondue style. : ) Thanks for sharing such great posts (keep the chocolate recipes, coming!) and Happy New Year! 2014 is going to be wonderful!

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  8. sundiegoeats

    January 3, 2014 at 4:00 pm

    Chocolate pudding, rice pudding, and you forgot bread pudding please. Best comfort foods ever.

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  9. Shikha la mode

    January 3, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    Can there just be a giant breakfast party with all of these wonderful things?!

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  10. Kristen O

    January 3, 2014 at 1:10 pm

    Wow, so awesome that you’re going with Compassion Int’l! I look forward to hearing about that! Also, I am making the brown butter doughnuts today!! So excited :)

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  11. Lenio

    January 3, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    Indulgent sweet breakfasts are perfect for winter!

    I’m based in Uganda, let me know if you need any tips or fun things to do (good places to eat)! Such a great country :)

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  12. Mallory @ Because I Like Chocolate

    January 3, 2014 at 10:55 am

    I must check out this chocolate hazelnut pudding. Who wouldn’t go for a Nutella-like pudding?

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  13. Carlinne @Cook with 2 Chicks

    January 3, 2014 at 10:31 am

    Thanks for all of the breakfast ideas!

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  14. Molly {Dreams in HD}

    January 3, 2014 at 10:20 am

    um, yes please!

    Molly {Dreams in HD}
    https://www.dreamsinhd.blogspot.com

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