This straightforward baked oatmeal recipe is a KERF traditional! It’s nice to make on prep day and reheat all through the week. This model baked in a pie dish options an elective peanut butter cream frosting!
Baked Oatmeal Recipe
This baked oatmeal recipe is without doubt one of the finest methods to take pleasure in oats! And it’s certainly one of my favourite breakfast recipes to make for a meal prep heavy week.
Easy to make, you’ll be able to have it prepared for a wholesome breakfast in underneath half-hour.
Combine the elements collectively, place in oven, go get showered for the day, and breakfast will likely be scorching and prepared for you.
My love for baked oatmeal goes again to 2008, and I’ve been making totally different variations for years. (See them linked on the backside of this submit.)
Since stove-top oatmeal in a bowl is difficult for toddlers to eat, this is without doubt one of the finest methods for littles to take pleasure in oatmeal. It’s a wonderful toddler finger meals lower into bite-size items. The feel of baked oats is just like bread pudding – agency sufficient to eat with a fork or choose up but not as strong as a cake.
What sort of oats ought to I take advantage of?
I like to recommend rolled oats for this recipe, however you should utilize fast oats in a pinch. The feel will likely be a bit much less hearty, and chances are you’ll lower the cooking time a bit for the rise in floor space / fast absorption that fast oats have.
Baked Oatmeal Diet
When lower into six servings, every base recipe serving is about 225 energy, 10 grams of protein, 5 grams of fiber, 5 grams of sugar, and 5 grams of fats.
The 5 grams of sugar is coming from pure sweeteners (banana and milk) somewhat than added sugar.
You’re additionally getting 56% of day by day calcium and 12% of day by day iron.
You too can make it gluten free through the use of licensed gluten free oats. Add in chia seeds, nuts of your alternative, or different fruits for added diet.
Word that is with cow’s milk, so almond milk will convey the protein down a bit. Subbing in flax eggs may also change the diet a bit.
Get The Sweetness From Bananas
Be sure you use very ripe bananas which have some brown spots, like on their method to banana bread standing, so that you’ll get loads of pure sweetness.
You’ll be able to add a number of tablespoons of brown sugar or pure maple syrup to the dry elements in the event you would like extra of a candy style.
Baked Oatmeal Topping Concepts
I do like so as to add a bit brown sugar or maple syrup broiled on high on the finish so it will get good and bubbly with a caramelized crust!
You too can combine in chopped nuts (or sprinkle them on high), recent, frozen or dried fruit, chocolate chips, pumpkin, and extra!
Or add this peanut butter cream frosting made with yogurt, PB2, and milk for a pleasant additional layer of taste!
How To Make This Baked Oatmeal Recipe
Put together moist and dry elements
Mash ripe banana till it’s good and tender. Beat your egg. Combine in milk and vanilla extract. You should utilize cow’s milk or almond milk.
Combine dry elements collectively in a big bowl (rolled oats, baking powder, cinnamon, salt.)
Pour moist elements into the dry ones
Combine nicely!
Pour into greased pie dish
You’ll be able to grease your pie dish with melted butter, coconut oil, or cooking spray. High with extra banana slices
Bake
Pop right into a 375 diploma oven for about 26 minutes, till golden brown on edges
Non-obligatory: Brown sugar broil
After 26 minutes, enhance warmth to broil, sprinkle oatmeal with 1 heaping tbsp brown sugar and broil for 3-4 minutes.
Serve heat or retailer within the fridge and reheat
Alternative ways to adapt the recipe:
- Bake in 8″ sq. baking pan lined with parchment for straightforward raise out and thinner slices
- Use a smaller baking dish for extra “loaf” sized slices (see the Pumpkin recipe under)
- Make in muffin tin for straightforward cups (nice to freeze!)
- Double the recipe and use an even bigger pan to feed a crowd!
How To Serve Baked Oatmeal
Serve it instantly heat from the oven! You’ll be able to lower into pie slices (which feels fancier to me) or in squares (which may be simpler to get completely out of the pan, particularly in the event you use a sq. baking dish.)
To retailer, merely permit to prepare dinner and place in glass meals storage containers within the fridge. Reheat within the microwave for 30-60 seconds, till heat all through.
You too can turned the baked oatmeal into bowl oatmeal by including some milk earlier than you reheat it after which stirring till the creamy milk creates a extra porridge-like texture. Add mixins and toppings such as you would oatmeal made within the microwave or on the stovetop.
Topping Thought: Peanut Butter Frosting
This “frosting” is my new jam. It’s a mixture of plain Greek yogurt, PB2 peanut butter powder, and milk that I blended till I acquired a thick-ish consistency after which piped onto the pie.
The topping is not candy so add some sugar if you’d like extra of a dessert frosting! I’d eat it with a spoon too.
Baked Oatmeal Recipe with Peanut Butter “Frosting”
This traditional baked oatmeal recipe with bananas has been a favourite for years in our home. It is tremendous easy to combine collectively and pop within the oven when you prepare. An elective brown sugar broil provides a bit caramelization and a peanut butter cream “frosting” has no sugar.
Elements
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 2 ripe bananas 1 mashed and 1 sliced
- 1.5 cups milk of your alternative
- 1 egg beat
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp brown sugar (elective)
For The Peanut Butter Frosting
- 1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 2 tbsp powdered peanut butter
- 2 tbsp milk
Directions
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Preheat oven to 375 levels.
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Mix the dry elements in a big bowl (oats, salt, cinnamon, baking powder).
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Mix the moist elements (egg, 1 mashed banana, milk, vanilla).
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Pour the moist into the dry and blend nicely.
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Spray a pie dish with cooking spray or grease with butter. Pour oat combination in.
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High with sliced bananas.
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Bake for about 26 minutes.
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After 26 minutes, enhance warmth to broil, sprinkle oatmeal with 1 heaping tbsp brown sugar and broil for 3-4 minutes.
For The Peanut Butter Frosting
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Combine yogurt, powdered peanut butter and milk till you’ve gotten desired consistency. You may need so as to add a bit roughly than the recipe requires – simply maintain going till you’ve gotten one thing you’ll be able to pipe. You too can add some cane sugar if you would like!
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As soon as the frosting consistency is to your liking, scoop right into a piping bag or ziplock and squeeze onto oatmeal pie.
Extra Baked Oatmeal Variations!
Egg Nog
Pumpkin
Apple Walnut
Espresso Almond
Strawberry Basil Breakfast Pie
Cinnamon Raisin Baked Oatmeal Muffins