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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I just want to say thank you for sharing all your amazing hard work and creativity with us. We just made, and love, your Baked Oatmeal Cupcakes To Go! I have developed chemical sensitivity and am very sick. I have been trying to change mine and my 4-year-old son’s diet and finding something healthy was maddening! A friend told me about your site and I am forever grateful.
Thanks again for your kindness,
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Thanks! I’ll definitely make sure my bananas are very ripe next time. I sprinkled some craisins on the top of a couple of them and that helped 🙂
OK, so these were a big hit overall. My 6 year old is currently in a disagreement with bananas so she didn’t love them, but my junk food fanatic 10 year old and my friend’s super ultra extra picky 3 year old loved them. So did I. I did almost burn the house down broiling them, but let’s not go there, heh heh. I did them with chocolate chips but I am low on chips today so I’m going the raisin and cranberry route for half the batch. Adding cinnamon too. And since I just made flourless oatmeal cookies, I may try to food process some of the oats for a variety on consistency. Yum, Katie! Thanks!
Thank you so much for trying them! 🙂
bluidshay – I love your comment: “My 6 year old is currently in a disagreement with bananas” Haha!
I have a 4 year old that is not a banana fan at the moment. Your wording made me laugh out loud!
I can’t wait to try these.
Has anyone tried to cut this recipe in half? If so, how did it turn out?
I’ve not tried, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. Baking time might have to be adjusted… I’m not sure.
I have tried to split the recipe in half and it turns out just as good. I didn’t have to change the bake time and they turned out perfect!
Hey:) I love the idea and can’t wait to try them out!!! Can you maybe tell me another way of measuring the stevia? Because where I live we don’t have the nunaturals packets, so I can’t measure it that way:) Thank you!!!!:)
Thank you for the recipe! These are delicious and addicting! I now make these all the time! Great on the go and healthy too!
I just have to tell you, I make these all the time and they’re so delicious and versatile. But my favorite new add-in is frozen raspberries in the center of the muffin! I spoon half the cupcake’s worth of batter in, put a few (2-4) frozen raspberries (still frozen) in the center, and then spoon the rest of the batter on top. It’s like a raspberry filling inside – soooo yummy!
That’s a great idea! I’m trying that next time!
Hey there!
I just used this as a basic recipe for my first try at baked oatmeal. So, I used both bananas and apple sauce (as I didn’t had enough ripe bananas), and added flax seeds and cinnamon to it. Great starter! I used 1/4 cup per cupcake.
I divided it to make several flavours. I made 10 with one ripe mango (20g per portion- 102 cal each) , 10 with one pear (27g per portion – 104 cal each), 4 with dried apricots (10g per portion – 113 cal each), 4 with dried figs (10g per portion, 115 cal) and finally 4 with raisins and dried cranberries (101 cal each). I put the fresh fruits in the bottom, as you suggest with your pineapple baked oatmeal recipe. Looks and tastes amazing!
As a waitress, I have to say these will make the perfect healthy and kick snack on the job!!
Thanks!
My four year old daughter and I made these exactly 25 minutes ago….oh my my…they are yummy! I must admit that I “think” we may have added too many chocolate chips because I can’t wrap my brain around these being healthy because they are SO good! Mine won’t come out of the cupcake wrapper as beautifully as yours look on the pictures. I added some extras like sunflower seeds, coconut, raisins, as you suggested and my oh my. Thanks for this healthy recipe even though I think I bombed it with my chocolate chips!
LOL how can there be such a thing as too many chocolate chips? 😉
sound so good
Think you could add peanut butter to the recipe?