This easy chocolate peanut butter baked oatmeal recipe is a healthy breakfast for the whole family.
Cook just once, and get breakfast for the entire week!
Ooey, gooey, chocolatey peanut butter baked oatmeal that can be prepared the night before and is perfect for taking on the go.
The recipe yields a large number of servings, so it’s great for when you have guests spending the night or are feeding a crowd.
Leftovers can easily be frozen, to reheat any time you’re in a rush and need an instant and healthy breakfast.
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This chocolate peanut butter baked oatmeal can be all of the following:
Soy Free
Dairy Free
Gluten Free
Egg Free
Refined Sugar Free
Just 8 Ingredients
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If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you might have noticed that many of the recipes will call for “milk of choice” as one of the ingredients.
People often ask me what this means, or what milk I personally use. My favorite, and possibly the most-used ingredient in my entire kitchen, is Blue Diamond Almond Breeze. It’s creamy, dairy-free and plant-based, and its unsweetened varieties (original, vanilla & chocolate) have less than 40 calories per cup. I go through so many cartons of almond milk that I usually buy them five or six at a time!
(And yes, in case you were wondering, this is SUPER FUN to carry home from the grocery store.)
Most often my go-to will be the Almond Cashew Unsweetened Original, which—thanks to having zero grams of sugar—is especially good for using in savory recipes like these Cheesy Ramen Noodle Bowls or my Ultimate Vegan Cheese Sauce.
I also make sure to always have a couple shelf-stable Almond Breeze (good for up to a full year) tucked into my pantry, because you never know when you might run out of refrigerated almondmilk halfway through making a recipe.
This is exactly what happened to me yesterday morning when I was making the peanut butter oatmeal, and having that shelf-stable Almond Breeze on hand saved the day. Or, it saved my breakfast plans at least!
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Peanut Butter Cup Baked Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup peanut butter or allergy-friendly sub
- 2 2/3 cup overripe mashed banana (banana-free version here)
- 1 cup milk of choice – I like Almond Breeze Almondmilk
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup OR additional milk of choice if you are used to the lower sweetness level of clean-eating recipes
- 2 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 tsp salt
- optional chocolate chips and/or melted peanut butter for garnish
Instructions
- Be sure to use bananas that are partially or mostly brown before peeling, which means they're ripe. Preheat the oven to 350 F and either line a 9x13 baking pan with parchment or grease the bottom and sides very well. In a large bowl, stir together the first 5 ingredients until evenly combined, then stir in remaining ingredients. Smooth into the pan, top with chocolate chips if desired. Bake on the center rack 30 minutes, then do not open the oven door even a little, but turn the oven off and let the pan sit in the turned-off oven for an additional 20 minutes. Garnish with additional peanut butter or maple syrup if desired, and serve hot or cold. This tastes even better if you loosely cover and refrigerate overnight, so I highly recommend serving it the day after it's made. Leftovers can also be sliced and frozen for up to two months.View Nutrition Facts
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I say chocolate makes it’s way into my breakfast at least 4-5 days a week. Chocolate in some form – every day. It’s good for the soul. 🙂
A handful of chocolate chips is never optional in my opinion!
Love this and all of your recipes!!! Chocolate for breakfast – you just made my four year old the happiest little boy!
BTW: I’m an avid follower and huge fan! My little ones know when I’m looking at this blog, something awesome is about to happen in our kitchen! Thanks for that!
Aw thanks, Shari!
Went directly to the kitchen to make this — it’s in the oven now! I hope you’re allowed to use names like “Reeses” in your cookbook! It describes this recipe so perfectly!
I just made this with two changes. I didn’t have any bananas, so I used Chobani Champions Vanilla with Chocolate Chunks yogurt and my son is allergic to peanuts, so I used TJ’s Sunflower Butter. My kids are gulping it down as quickly as they can and my son just asked if he can have it for breakfast tomorrow! Thank you!!
yes, and I love doing it! 🙂
So I totally tried this this morning! I only ha steel cut oats however, and I used a whole banana and too much stevia. It looked awesome and I took some sweet photos but it did NOT turn out like yours I’m guessing. I only ate half..just didn’t taste that good. But it was fun to try! I will leave out all forms of stevia from now on…bleh! I usually like stevia too! Just not in baked goods apparently. Or in anything other than the Zevia soda. I’m sure if I followed ur recipe to the T it would have been spot on. I, like you, tend to not like to oversweeten things. The banana would have been enough in there 🙂
p.s. are you on instagram? because I wanted to link my photo of this to you if you have one 🙂
Sorry, I’m not.
Katie, you had me at peanut butter- chocolate! This looks super yummy! I have made a lot of your recipes and they have all been consistently delicious!! Your site and blog are the best! Thank you so much for posting these gems! You are a creative genius !
OMG, that looks amazing!
I do something very similar to this with my usual morning oatmeal but sometimes you just gotta do the boatmeal. 😉
Chocolate + peanut butter + banana = breakfast heaven! Love this!
can’t wait to try this!! looks amazing. I live in NYC and I feel so lucky cause there are so many amazing places….
you NEED to try Stogo ice cream shop before you leave: it’s this amazing little ice cream place where you can create your own cookie sandwich (choose the cookie and the ice cream flavor, and it’s to die for).
You also need to go to Candle Cafe or Candle 79, maybe not the “healthiest” of vegan foods but it is really really yummy !
also if you happen to be in downtown noho, like bowery and bond, there is a café called THINK that isn’t vegan, but they have a really good chocolate covered peanut butter bar 🙂
Hope you enjoy your stay 🙂
I love adding cocoa powder to my morning oats or smoothies. Chocolate chips often make an appearance too!
I see absolutely no shame in eating chocolate for breakfast as long as it is filled with sugar. I love chocolate protein shakes and chocolate oatmeal in the morning! Yummy!
Wow, this is pretty much the exact recipe I have been using for my breakfast oatmeal pudding. The only differences are that I add another 1/2 cup water/milk, microwave for 2 minutes, then add 1 tsp psyllium husk powder and stir. The psyllium gelatinizes to give a pudding texture (and of course adds fiber). You do make that baked version look really good with the frosting though! I think when I try it, I’ll do your Reeses Pieces frosting for extra peanut butter chocolatey goodness 🙂
I just saw that the link to the chocolate fudge frosting is the Reeses Pieces frosting! 😛
That looks so good! I am definitely trying this and I have all the ingredients for once! How much liquid stevia concentrate would you use? Would you scale down the milk in that instance? I don’t generally have dessert like breakfasts but sometimes if I have a crepe with almond butter, nuts and bananas it feels like dessert 🙂 those breakfasts aren’t often though. Would you count oats with honey and banana as a breakfast dessert? Hmm.
Sorry, I haven’t tried it with liquid stevia so I really don’t know.
Wait, what research?? Just curious… I know I do better when I satisfy my sweet tooth, but I am wondering if there is any real science behind the claim.
I just remember seeing studies recently. Maybe The New York Times? A lot of people were commenting a few months ago, leaving me the links about it, but I don’t remember a specific link.
It was here:
http://www.everydayhealth.com/healthy-recipes-pictures/healthy-dessert-for-breakfast-recipes.aspx#/slide-1
Which links to this article:
http://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/0208/why-you-should-have-chocolate-for-breakfast.aspx
I remember because that’s how I found this blog! 🙂
Ok, now I feel a little dumb 😕
Lol don’t feel dumb… It was almost 6 months ago, and I’m sure you have people asking to feature recipes on other sites all the time! 😉