Until yesterday, I’d never tried baked oats.
Could that really be true?
Me?? With all of the Healthy Oatmeal Recipes?
Yes, somehow, it’s true. Baked oatmeal has been on my list for a long time, but that “to make” list is kinda lengthy. Thankfully, I finally got around to it… and now I am kicking myself (hard!) for not trying baked oatmeal sooner! I see many bowls (ramekins?) of it in my chocolate-covered future.
Single Serving Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup rolled oats (50g)
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon, and optional 1/8 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- sweetener, such as 1 1/2 to 2 tbsp maple syrup or 1 to 1 1/2 packs stevia
- 1/4 cup canned pumpkin (applesauce or banana also work)
- 1/4 cup milk of choice, or nondairy creamer, or water (scale back by a tbsp if using liquid sweetener)
- 1/8 tsp salt
- Optional: 1 to 2 tbsp oil or favorite nut butter (if oil, scale the milk back by a tbsp)
- Optional: raisins, walnuts, brown sugar to sprinkle on top, etc.
Instructions
Single Serving Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal: Preheat oven to 380 degrees. Combine raw oats, spices, pumpkin, and milk. Pour into a greased 1-cup ramekin (or two 1/2-cup ramekins) or a mini-loaf pan. Cook for 20 minutes or more, until it gets firm. Finally, set your oven to “high broil” for 3 more minutes, or until it reaches desired crispy-ness (or simply just bake longer, but broiling gives it a nice crust). You can even make this the night before. Edit: some readers told me that they like to make multiple servings at once and freeze leftovers for an instant breakfast! A few readers have had success making this in the microwave, but I haven’t tried.
So, Pumpkin Boatmeal?
It was like biting into a warm pumpkin-oatmeal cookie. Highly, highly recommended! I thought I’d miss my creamy oats, but surprisingly I didn’t miss them one bit groat. I should’ve known: oatmeal in any form is pretty much guaranteed to be a hit with me.
Ive been having so much fun with these. I just made three, one pumpkin, one chocolate and one banana chocolate chip. They smell yummy!
Katie…you are an absolute genius. Made one for breakfast this morning and it was fantastic…made my house smell like pumpkin pie :). It was so delicious that I made a second to freeze for another day. THANK YOU.
while especially delicious fresh out of the oven, “boatmeal” reheats quite nicely and it an easy breakfast to bring to the office. I sometimes make a big batch on sundays and eat it all week.
I love how I can type pretty much anything into your search engine and actually find it! lol I was just talking to my sister about oatmeal. You see, she normally sticks with just plain oatmeal, lightly sweetened and throws in some nuts, but come on! I keep telling her about all my CCK oatmeal adventures, and today she finally tried a vegan oatmeal chocolate oatmeal and says she thinks she wants to try pumpkin next, thus my searching for pumpkin oatmeal. My husband is going to LOVE this! He seems mildly obsessed with pumpkin.
OMG! Just made this tonight, and it was FANTASTIC! I used pear butter in place of the oil, and almond milk in place of “regular’ milk. Soooo yummy! I thought it tasted more like dessert than healthy breakfast! Sooo gonna make this again!
Thanks!
Made this today….major hit with my two girls. Yum!
Katie, I had been looking forward to making this all week! The first morning I had (today) where I didn’t have to rush off to classes, I hopped out of bed and got cooking. This was an absolutely delicious recipe…especially for the biggest pumpkin lover like myself! I can’t wait to enjoy this more in the future. Keep it up! 🙂
I’m afraid I’ve caught someone stealing this recipe of yours. :/
Thank you so much for letting me know 🙁
I can’t believe she would even go as far as to say “source: mine!”
Sometimes people really make me sad…
In any case, thank you for telling me!
i tried contacting her and telling her that she should source it, but she gave me snark and started saying it was her ‘grandmother’s 30 year old recipe and that i should check MY sources’. i hope you can sort this out! good luck!
That’s really weird 😕
But thank you so much for even taking the time to do that! In any case, tumblr took care of it after I reported it… Just too bad it looks like the blogger is taking others’ recipes as well.
I just tried this. I used agave nectar as sweetener. I loved it! I will make many more of your boatmeals 🙂
If I wanted to make this in an 8×8 for the family how much would I need to multiple the recipe? Also, how much longer would I need to bake it?
I am working on a larger-scale recipe 🙂