This straightforward baked oatmeal recipe is a KERF basic! It’s nice to make on prep day and reheat all through the week. This model baked in a pie dish options an non-compulsory peanut butter cream frosting!
Baked Oatmeal Recipe
This baked oatmeal recipe is among the greatest methods to take pleasure in oats! And it’s one among my favourite breakfast recipes to make for a meal prep heavy week.
Simple to make, you possibly can have it prepared for a wholesome breakfast in beneath half-hour.
Mix the elements collectively, place in oven, go get showered for the day, and breakfast will probably be scorching and prepared for you.
My love for baked oatmeal goes again to 2008, and I’ve been making completely different variations for years. (See them linked on the backside of this publish.)
Since stove-top oatmeal in a bowl is difficult for toddlers to eat, this is among the greatest methods for littles to take pleasure in oatmeal. It’s a superb toddler finger meals lower into bite-size items. The texture of baked oats is just like bread pudding – agency sufficient to eat with a fork or choose up but not as stable as a cake.
What type 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 texture will probably 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 Nutrition
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) fairly than added sugar.
You’re additionally getting 56% of every day calcium and 12% of every day iron.
You may also make it gluten free by utilizing licensed gluten free oats. Add in chia seeds, nuts of your alternative, or different fruits for added vitamin.
Note that is with cow’s milk, so almond milk will carry the protein down a bit of. Subbing in flax eggs may even change the vitamin a bit.
Get The Sweetness From Bananas
Make certain you employ very ripe bananas which have some brown spots, like on their technique to banana bread standing, so that you’ll get loads of pure sweetness.
You can add just a few tablespoons of brown sugar or pure maple syrup to the dry elements when you would like extra of a candy style.
Baked Oatmeal Topping Ideas
I do like so as to add a bit of brown sugar or maple syrup broiled on high on the finish so it will get good and bubbly with a caramelized crust!
You may also combine in chopped nuts (or sprinkle them on high), contemporary, 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
Prepare moist and dry elements
Mash ripe banana till it’s good and delicate. Beat your egg. Mix in milk and vanilla extract. You can use cow’s milk or almond milk.
Mix dry elements collectively in a big bowl (rolled oats, baking powder, cinnamon, salt.)
Pour moist elements into the dry ones
Mix properly!
Pour into greased pie dish
You can grease your pie dish with melted butter, coconut oil, or cooking spray. Top with extra banana slices
Bake
Pop right into a 375 diploma oven for about 26 minutes, till golden brown on edges
Optional: 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
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Different methods to adapt the recipe:
- Bake in 8″ sq. baking pan lined with parchment for straightforward elevate 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 a much bigger pan to feed a crowd!
How To Serve Baked Oatmeal
Serve it instantly heat from the oven! You can lower into pie slices (which feels fancier to me) or in squares (which may be simpler to get completely out of the pan, particularly when 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 may also 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 Idea: 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 combined till I obtained 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 might eat it with a spoon too.
Baked Oatmeal Recipe with Peanut Butter “Frosting”
This basic baked oatmeal recipe with bananas has been a favourite for years in our home. It’s tremendous easy to combine collectively and pop within the oven whilst you prepare. An non-compulsory brown sugar broil provides a bit of caramelization and a peanut butter cream “frosting” has no sugar.
Ingredients
- 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 (non-compulsory)
For The Peanut Butter Frosting
- 1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 2 tbsp powdered peanut butter
- 2 tbsp milk
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 375 levels.
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Combine the dry elements in a big bowl (oats, salt, cinnamon, baking powder).
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Combine the moist elements (egg, 1 mashed banana, milk, vanilla).
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Pour the moist into the dry and blend properly.
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Spray a pie dish with cooking spray or grease with butter. Pour oat combination in.
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Top 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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Mix yogurt, powdered peanut butter and milk till you’ve got desired consistency. You might need so as to add a bit of kind of than the recipe requires – simply maintain going till you’ve got one thing you possibly can pipe. You may also add some cane sugar if you would like!
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Once the frosting consistency is to your liking, scoop right into a piping bag or ziplock and squeeze onto oatmeal pie.
More Baked Oatmeal Variations!
Egg Nog
Pumpkin
Apple Walnut
Coffee Almond
Strawberry Basil Breakfast Pie