Sweet, buttery, and deliciously filling, this peach breakfast bake is a healthy breakfast recipe that tastes like homemade peach crumble!
Someday, I am going to be a very good grandma.
By the time I’m old, I will have had lots of practice. I often sit down for dinner at 5, constantly nag people to eat more vegetables, and living in Florida sounds like a dream!
But every now and then, I like to stay out late. Unfortunately, my body doesn’t care if I’m up at 2am; it’ll still be wide-eyed and ready to go by 6 the next morning! For example, on Friday night I went out dancing and had two friends spend the night afterward. I woke up at 5:30 yesterday morning, while they proceeded to sleep until noon.
That’s okay; I actually enjoy my time alone in the mornings. It’s peaceful when no one else is awake. Yesterday, when I got back from running and found my friends still asleep, I figured I’d surprise them with breakfast. Little did I know I’d be eating lunch by the time they got up…
What to make?
First, I thought about baking a Chocolate Banana Bread.
But my friends aren’t the biggest banana fans. So I decided to try something new on them. A few months ago, I’d pulled a recipe for apple crisp out of People magazine. It caught my eye due to its simplicity. I very loosely used this apple-crisp recipe as a guide for yesterday’s breakfast: peach breakfast bake. My friends loved it… when they finally woke up!
Peach Breakfast Bake
Ingredients
- 5 cups sliced peaches
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp cornstarch or arrowroot
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 1/2 cups crushed cereal of choice (I used shredded wheat)
- 1/2 cup sweetener of choice, or 1/4 tsp uncut stevia
- 4 tbsp melted butter, coconut oil, or applesauce or banana for low fat
- 1/2 tsp salt (decrease to 1/4 tsp if using salted butter spread)
- optional yogurt or nondairy creamer for serving
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. If desired, peel the peaches. Mix them with the lemon, arrowroot, cinnamon, half of the salt, and half of the sweetener. Let sit for ten minutes. Meanwhile, stir the crushed cereal, remaining sweetener and salt, and melted butter or oil in a separate bowl until well-blended. Spread the peach mixture in an 8-inch baking pan. Top with the cereal mixture. Bake for 45 minutes. To serve, I like to mix each portion with yogurt or nondairy creamer.View Nutrition Facts
Notes
More Healthy Fruit Breakfast Ideas
I don’t often make recipes from magazines, but I do make the ones I find on blogs, like this one: it looks incredible! Peaches are just starting to get good here, so I may wait a couple more weeks. But my fridge is always stocked with So Delicious coconut milk yogurt, and ice cream! 🙂
Gotta love that So Delicious :).
OMG that looks super yummie..I so have to try that!!!
I am a new grandma and this recipe will make me popular with both kids and parents- and I of course need to try it myself first!
Aww congrats on being a new grandma 🙂
Yet ANOTHER wonderful reason why I love summer! Peaches…. for breakfast? Count me in 😉
Agreed! I always miss peaches in the winter!
I think my parents have those exact same bowls!
That almost looks like the apricot crisp my mom used to make all the time. We would serve it warm, and top it with a bit of milk. Totally saving this recipe idea to try out with some of the fruit we are finally seeing around here – our summer has been horrible, and all of our summer fruits are so delayed!
Hey Katie! I was reading your blog (which I fell in love with) lastnight and I had to write down this recipe! I love peaches like crazy! I made this recipe this morning and oh my gosh , words can’t explain how good it was. I didn’t share with anyone ;D all for myself haha! Well again , thanks for the recipe 😀 !
I was wondering if you could make a healthy recipe for Peach Ice Cream 😀
Awww I am SO excited you liked it!
I do have a peach ice cream that uses the vita-mix… but it’s more of a sorbet taste… I also have a vanilla ice cream you could add peaches to, to make peach ice cream. But do you have a vita-mix?
Wow that sounds so good !! I’ll check it out , but no I just have a standard blender. Is the vitamix neccesary ??
You can’t really make the ice cream texture without a vita-mix or an ice cream maker 🙁
🙁 Vita Mix is next on my wishlist!
mmmm looks tasty! I just experimented a little with some pears too!
Living out in the boonies puts my boys on the bus at 7am….meaning I get up at 5:30 every morning. getting them to eat a healthy breakfast is my first priority..after coffee of course. I found this recipe and thought I would try it. I macerated the peaches overnight so I wouldn’t have to much to do in the morning. It was a big hit! I didn’t have shredded wheat on hand but I used an equal amount of rice crispy cereal and quick cook oats. it had a lovely chewy texture and was really nice with plain greek yogurt. Thank you!
i think i will divide this so its just a single serving for myself tomorow 🙂
It’s strange how some of us are wired to rise with the sun.If I stay up til the crack of dawn the same thing happens and i can almost never go back to sleep. I agree mornings are nice though. My favorite meal to eat or cook is breakfast,and this recipe sounds yummy.By the way thanks for the choc chip bean pie recipe,my whole family loved it
hey Choc Katie… would this work with oatmeal???
Don’t know… but it sounds like a fun experiment!
Can you use canned or frozen peaches?
Yes! 🙂
Made this for breakfast this morning. Mixed some peanut butter into plain Greek yogurt for the topping. It was so good it made my toes curl!
LOL! 🙂
I’ve never tried a recipe from a gossip magazine haha!! But totally from health mags! I actually have some pages bookmarked to try…I better get on that!
Yum! That looks so good! I have so many recipes I want to make from the blog world, that I don’t normally save magazine recipes! haha