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 elective peanut butter cream frosting!
Baked Oatmeal Recipe
This baked oatmeal recipe is likely one of the finest methods to get pleasure from oats! And it’s certainly one of my favourite breakfast recipes to make for a meal prep heavy week.
Easy to make, you possibly can have it prepared for a wholesome breakfast in below half-hour.
Combine the substances collectively, place in oven, go get showered for the day, and breakfast will probably be sizzling 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 tough for toddlers to eat, this is likely one of the finest methods for littles to get pleasure from oatmeal. It’s a wonderful toddler finger meals lower into bite-size items. The feel of baked oats is much like bread pudding – agency sufficient to eat with a fork or decide 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 use fast oats in a pinch. The feel 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 Vitamin
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) slightly than added sugar.
You’re additionally getting 56% of each day calcium and 12% of each day iron.
It’s also possible to 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.
Be aware that is with cow’s milk, so almond milk will convey the protein down just a little. Subbing in flax eggs will even change the diet a bit.
Get The Sweetness From Bananas
Be sure to use very ripe bananas which have some brown spots, like on their option to banana bread standing, so that you’ll get loads of pure sweetness.
You may add just a few tablespoons of brown sugar or pure maple syrup to the dry substances in case you would favor extra of a candy style.
Baked Oatmeal Topping Concepts
I do like so as to add just a little brown sugar or maple syrup broiled on high on the finish so it will get good and bubbly with a caramelized crust!
It’s also possible to 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
Put together moist and dry substances
Mash ripe banana till it’s good and tender. Beat your egg. Combine in milk and vanilla extract. You should use cow’s milk or almond milk.
Combine dry substances collectively in a big bowl (rolled oats, baking powder, cinnamon, salt.)
Pour moist substances into the dry ones
Combine nicely!
Pour into greased pie dish
You may 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-compulsory: Brown sugar broil
After 26 minutes, improve 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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Alternative ways to adapt the recipe:
- Bake in 8″ sq. baking pan lined with parchment for simple elevate out and thinner slices
- Use a smaller baking dish for extra “loaf” sized slices (see the Pumpkin recipe beneath)
- Make in muffin tin for simple 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 may lower into pie slices (which feels fancier to me) or in squares (which could be simpler to get completely out of the pan, particularly in case you use a sq. baking dish.)
To retailer, merely permit to cook dinner and place in glass meals storage containers within the fridge. Reheat within the microwave for 30-60 seconds, till heat all through.
It’s also possible to 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 combined till I acquired a thick-ish consistency after which piped onto the pie.
The topping is not candy so add some sugar in order for you extra of a dessert frosting! I’d 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 is tremendous easy to combine collectively and pop within the oven whilst you prepare. An elective brown sugar broil provides just a little caramelization and a peanut butter cream “frosting” has no sugar.
Substances
- 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 substances in a big bowl (oats, salt, cinnamon, baking powder).
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Mix the moist substances (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, improve 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 might have desired consistency. You may need so as to add just a little kind of than the recipe requires – simply hold going till you might have one thing you possibly can pipe. It’s also possible to 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