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.
Just… awesome.
Can steel-cut oats be used in any of your recipes?
The crock pot oatmeal recipe 🙂
Every morning will be a boatmeal morning! So delicious!! Thank you for sharing these amazing recipes 🙂
Love, love, love this recipe! And your blog! I add, of course, chocolate chips to this and eat it for both breakfast as well as dessert. Keep up the great work, Katie!
I love this recipe soo much! My freshmen year of college, I would make a huge bowl of oatmeal (I’m talking 3 servings worth) every morning. Nothing else sounded appetizing. I got me through three tough terms (all the usual freshman drama), and a major change, and all without gaining any of the freshmen 15. Never added anything but Stevia to it. May be time to mix it up a bit 😉
I’m making this with my kids this morning, they love oatmeal, so this should be a hit!!
Oh yum, Oatmeal cookies, and pumpkin rolled into one. I seriously can’t wait to try this. It’s cooking in the oven now. I can’t resist a good chewie cookie, and I’m a serious pumpkin addict … my addiction is fueled every October and lasts well into February…. who knows… maybe we can keep it alive well into March this year…
thank you for sharing…
This is awesome! Just enjoyed it on my snow day 🙂
Making this right now. 🙂 So excited. I added Artisana Coconut Butter =D
These are coming out of my oven now, and smells delicious!! Can’t wait to try it!!