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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Katie these are sooooo yummy! I changed it up a bit, cutting the recipe in half, and I had some pureed pumpkin to use up so I subbed that for the banana, and I did 4 tsp of stevia. Added pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon and 1/2 c. raisins, and had to add a small handful of chocolate chips. I am so looking forward to breakfast in the morning. thanks for the great recipe!
Hi Katie,
I am a teenage boy, and I am really into eating healthy food. I am in sophmore year at highschool, and every day at school people are eating chips and cookies and poptarts so sometimes I feel like Im the ONLY healthy person out there. Its nice to know there are many more healthy people. I am gratefull for a chance to eat healthy and your site has the greatest tasting things ive ever had! I love every recipe Ive ever tried from your site. Its so great to have a quick yummy snack to make whenever Im hungry, and that way I can still be healthy. Your Breakfast Oatmeal Cupcakes are amazing. I have them all the time! I also really like your oatmeal recipes. I just wanted to say thankyou so much for all the yummy recipes! KEEP IT UP! 😀
I just made these last night and took two for my breakfast this morning for work. They were wonderful with my tea! Here I thought I was so clever, I substituted pumpkin for the banana and I see that another person already thought of that fabulous idea!! I think this is already one of my favorite versatile, go-to recipes – I want to try it with applesauce, like yet another creative cook here has done, and maybe even cooked sweet potato. It seems that oatmeal is very forgiving and will cook up in a zillion different ways – this one is very easy and makes for a good healthy breakfast on the go! Thank you Katie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What oatmeal do you use? Does Quaker work?
Yes 🙂
i made them for my 5 yo for quick breakfast on way to school. i add some coconut dried apricots! big hit
I have 5 boys under the age of 8 and I made these for breakfast this morning and my boys LOVED them! I just wanted to note: This recipe calls for 1/4c plus 1 tbsp oil. For simplicity sake, 1/4 cup plus 1 tbsp = 1/3 cup. Might just be easier to write 1/3 cup in the future 🙂 Love this blog, love your recipes, I use them frequently. Keep up the good work.
Just made these this morning, but cut the recipe in half. Yum!!! They are a perfect way to start the morning! I subbed milk for water (usually how I make my oatmeal) and had a little too much liquid (didn’t cut back the amount you said since I used maple syrup as a sweetener – noticed that after the fact) so I added about 1/2 c dried unsweetened coconut. Worked perfect to make 12 full muffins. Definitely keeping this recipe – thank you!! 🙂
you are beautiful!!
Loved this so much I had one for dinner! Will DEFINITLY make again…and again…and again… (you get the idea) 😉
I made these this morning. Added 2/3 cup mini choc chips, 1/3 cup unsweetened coconut and 2 Tbs chia seeds. In my regular size muffin pan they only made 16 so the calories are higher (about 170 per muffin). They are delish! So excited to have these for on-the-go breakfast for me and my toddler all week. Really, really satisfying. Thanks for such a great recipe! Using water is smart way to save calories, though my almond milk is only 40 cal per cup so I may try to sub that in the next batch. Thanks again!