With these breakfast oatmeal cupcakes, you cook just once and get a delicious and healthy breakfast for the entire month!
The simple breakfast oatmeal cupcakes are one of my family’s favorite things to eat on rushed mornings.
I first made the recipe years ago, and we still love them!
My mother often makes a batch for herself and takes them to work so she can have a nutritious breakfast that’s easy to prepare on busy weekdays.
She’ll send me a text message with a screenshot, saying “Guess what I had for breakfast again today!”
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These wholesome breakfast cupcakes are:
Quick to make
Portable and non messy
Easy to eat at a desk or pack in a lunchbox
Gluten free and vegan friendly
Just throw a couple into your bag, perhaps along with a container of peanut butter and some fresh fruit, and you’re good to go with a balanced breakfast.
My family, a former college roommate, and eight of my friends are all hooked!
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Above, watch the step-by-step oatmeal cupcake recipe video
Never skip breakfast again.
Cook once, and you don’t have to worry about breakfast for close to a month!
These customizable “breakfast” baked oatmeal cupcakes are great on-the-go fuel for those days when you have zero time in the morning to prepare a big meal.
The recipe can be oil free, and it gives you the option to easily change up the flavor by choosing different spices and add-ins for endless breakfast cupcake variations.
Do you ever skip breakfast? And what do you usually eat on days when sitting down to breakfast just isn’t an option? When I was a teenager, I hated getting up early, so breakfast was often something portable, eaten in the car as I rushed to school.
I never understood how my friends who skipped breakfast could make it through class. The only times I’ve ever really skipped breakfast were weekends when I was 13 or 14… because I’d completely sleep through it!
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Breakfast Oatmeal Cupcake Flavors
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Raisin: replace up to half of the mini chocolate chips in the base recipe below with chopped raisins.
Banana Bread: add a half teaspoon of ground cinnamon to the batter, and stir in a handful of crushed walnuts or pecans if desired.
Coconut Cookie Dough: use coconut oil or coconut butter and stir in about a third of a cup of shredded coconut before baking.
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cup: replace the oil with an equal amount of peanut butter, and throw in a handful of chopped peanuts if you wish.
You can also turn the recipe into Chocolate Chip Breakfast Squares!
Breakfast Oatmeal Cupcakes To Go
Ingredients
- 5 cups rolled oats
- 2 1/2 cups mashed banana (or this Banana-Free Version)
- 1 tsp salt
- 5 tbsp pure maple syrup, agave, or honey OR stevia equivalent amount
- 2/3 cup mini chocolate chips, optional
- 2 1/3 cups water (Increase to 2 2/3 cups if using stevia)
- 1/4 cup oil, nut butter, or additional banana
- 2 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- optional add-ins: cinnamon, shredded coconut, chopped walnuts, ground flax or chia, wheat germ, raisins, dried fruit, etc.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 380 F, and line 24-25 cupcake tins. In a large mixing bowl, combine all dry ingredients and stir very well. In a separate bowl, combine and stir all wet ingredients (including banana). Mix wet into dry, then pour into the cupcake liners and bake 21 minutes. I also like to then broil for 1-2 minutes, but it’s optional. (If you let them cool overnight, they'll no longer stick to the liners.) These oatmeal cakes can be eaten right away, or they can be frozen and reheated for an instant breakfast on a busy day.View Nutrition Facts
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Hello, Thanks for your recipies, I love these, they make my mornings so much easier. I’ve noticed that you use the NuNaturals Stevia packs in quite a few recipies, and I’m just wondering how much stevia that works out too. I have a jar of stevia, and have to measure it with a spoon and I never know how much to use so usually stick with the liquid sweetener options but would like to try using stevia.
I can only recommend NuNaturals stevia. One packet is 1/2 tsp of NuNaturals powder or 1/64 tsp pure extract powder.
Thank you for your reply. 🙂
Katie! I’ve made a couple of your recipes, but this is my FAVORITE. I love oatmeal for breakfast, and these are dense, delicious, filling and PERFECT (especially with some peanut butter as “frosting” ;)). I used unsweetened vanilla almond milk instead of water and 2 tbsp agave syrup. YUM! I froze most, and left a couple on the counter to tempt me until the next day’s breakfast. Thank you.
ps, All I had to do was tell people about this at work, and they all wanted the recipe!
These are in the oven right now! 🙂 I added walnuts and dried cranberries along with the chocolate chips. I also used a mixture of bananas and apple sauce. My sweetener of choice was maple syrup. The batter tasted so good! Thank you so much for the recipe. I have an 8 o’clock biology class and needed something easy to take with me.
Katie, I live in a rather complicated household between 3 vegetarians of various levels, one of whom is also gf, a gf with very sensitive celiac, someone who doesn’t eat vegetables etc. Your blog has so many great ideas and last night we made this recipe. They were so tasty and quite easy. We put in a bit more chocolate than you list, so I don’t know how healthy they were, but people had them for breakfast. Our house is not good at breakfast and we hope these tasty little cakes will help with that. Thank you for your fabulous recipes.
Jenna
Since coconut is a solid, do you melt it down to use in this recipe. Or do you measure it out and use it in solid form?
Liquid form. Haha I live in Texas so it’s usually liquid to begin with ;).
Katie, I made a half-batch of these yesterday. I was a little worried that I wouldn’t like them, and I worried that if I didn’t like them, I’d be forced to throw them out.
I had two for breakfast with my tea this morning.
They were OUTRAGEOUSLY good! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I still have a ton of bananas (bought 11 ripe bananas from the “damaged” fruit area for $1.49!) and plan to make the rest of the batch tonight & freeze.
Thanks for sharing!
How much (in grams or something alike) is one stevia packet? I’m always really confused haha. Thanks a bunch!
I can only recommend NuNaturals. One packet is 1/2 tsp of NuNaturals powder or 1/64 tsp pure extract powder.
These look delicious. And, they’re wheat free. Thanks!
Hi Katie!
Thankyou for the awesome recipe! Just took these out of the oven and they smell fantastic! Quick question and I apologize if this is a repeat question but once frozen, how long do you usually reheat these for?
Thanks!
Jamie
Depends on your microwave and also how cold your freezer settings are.
Hi K-
Stumbled across your website while looking for a way to slow-cook steel cut oats. I am so inspired by your recipes, using healthy things to make yummy things. We are a family that loves sugar, and I love that you provide recipes with low-sugar, no sugar and sugar substitutes!
It was great fun reading through your blogs. Thanks for sharing your food philosophy; you are my food “soul-sister!” Keep up the great work!