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!
Leftover Oatmeal? Make Baked Oats
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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Does it taste like flapjacks, I don’t really like oatmeal much but LOVE flapjacks! would be nice to have something to take fast as always in a rush in the mornings x
Just wondering if you could substitute milk or something else for the water to add a little more nutrition?
One other question: The coconut oil I bought from Trader Joe was in a solid form? Was I supposed to soften it? It was very difficult to incorporate even with a whisk. There were lumps throughout the batter and am concerned about how these will come out. My first time cooking with coconut oil.
Yes definitely soften first.
Could this also be done as a bar? If so, what baking temp and time do you suggest?
9×13 pan. 21 minutes then turn off heat but leave in the oven 20 minutes more.
How do you properly store these for the week ahead? Cover at room temperature?
Hi Katie,
I wanted to let you know that I tried it with steel cut oats and it was okay. I think cooking it with the normal oats would be better, as I felt like the steel cut are still chewy (unless they are supposed to be like this?)
thanks for the great recipe!!
Made these exactly as you have them posted and they are YUMMY!!!!! For my second batch I added cinnamon and it was even more YUMMY!! I want to try them with a puree pumpkin and then add all the spices of pumpkin pie and see what happens! Thank you for posting!! I LOVE LOVE that you post nutrition facts!!! Great site!!
I love the baked oatmeal cupcakes to go. However, I have made them twice & both times i find mold on them after a few days, so i have to toss them. I just made them again & have them in the fridge in hopes that they will not get moldy. Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks!
They need to be stored in the fridge.
I love the oatmeal cupcakes! Question-I’m having issues with them becoming soggy after a few days. The first time I made them, I put them in an air tight container while they were still warm and it caused condensation-my bad. The next time, I let them completely cool, but in a few days, they were soggy again and even started to mold 🙁 Any suggestions? Love your website!
I just substituted pumpkin and added all the typical pumpkin pie spices. Everything else I left the same….amazing!!! Like mini pumpkin pies!!! Pumpkin has great anti oxidents too!!
Did you sub all the banana for pumpkin? That sounds delicious
Yes! And added all the pumpkin pie spices. I really liked them!!