For the past three years, nearly every time I flew to Northern California to visit my parents, I asked if they’d be willing to make a trip to our favorite brunch spot. Although the restaurant was located nearly 45 minutes away, they always agreed to go. Everyone in our family thought the food was definitely worth the drive!
Whenever we arrived, we scanned the room to search for our favorite waiter. Even when the hostess seated us at another server’s table, he always came over to say hi, give us hugs, and ask how we were doing. We loved seeing him just as much as the brunch food!
As creatures of habit, we picked the same menu items nearly every time: country-style hash browns for my brother, an omelet or fried eggs for Dad, huevos rancheros or scrambled eggs with cheese for Mom, and steamed veggies and grilled chicken for me. Aside from my brother with his egg allergy, the rest of us always ordered towering slices of the restaurant’s signature coffee cake too.
Those coffee cake slices usually appeared at the table first, a few minutes before the main dishes. They were supremely tall and incredibly moist, each tender square slice filled with fresh juicy blueberries and topped with a thick layer of cinnamon sugar streusel… Along with a generous amount of butter, which quickly melted into the hot streusel and bound it all together.
Pure bliss… Although I learned many years ago to take my slice home and save it for an after dinner treat so I wouldn’t end up with a sugar crash at lunchtime!
The restaurant usually offered a second seasonal coffee cake flavor in addition to their classic blueberry. They had cranberry during the holidays, raspberry around Valentine’s Day, and pumpkin walnut for the fall. However, we knew better than to order one of those… You just couldn’t beat those juicy blueberries!
Yet one summer, we noticed a peach-flavored coffee cake on the menu. As one of our favorite summer fruits (we’re totally obsessed, especially with my grandma’s buttery peach pie!), we nearly changed our standard blueberry coffee cake order…
Until we noticed one little detail.
Those slices also included walnuts.
The rest of my family is allergic, and I just don’t like nuts in my cakes, muffins, or brownies. As a little kid, I always picked them out to eat separately, and I still do that as an adult! So we defaulted back to blueberry that morning, but I still couldn’t shake the thought of that peach coffee cake from my mind.
So I finally created my own recipe for this Healthy Peach Oatmeal Breakfast Cake! It’s much healthier than those indulgent slices from our favorite brunch restaurant, yet it’s still just as moist and tender. Each slice is full of sweet juicy peaches, cozy oats, and warm spices — such an irresistible combination! (And no nuts!)
Even better, this healthy breakfast cake is easy to make and great for meal prepping, quick grab-and-go breakfasts, or midday snacking. It also has no refined flour or sugar and 97 calories in each slice!
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