Sunshine Baked Oatmeal
 
I’m in love and it’s a sunny day.
This healthy breakfast recipe is like the love child of oatmeal and pineapple cobbler. The fruit caramelizes as it bakes, which tastes so amazingly good… and the kitchen feels like a tropical island paradise!
It was inspired by the wildly popular Oatmeal Breakfast Cupcakes.
The first time I made this vegan baked oatmeal was back in December: an apple pie version. Recently, I found myself with quite a large amount of leftover pineapple (after making the Dole Whip Recipe I posted earlier). For Mothers’ Day breakfast this year, I adapted my apple pie baked oatmeal to work with pineapple… this tropical version turned out to be even better!
 
Sunshine Breakfast Baked Oatmeal Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups ripe pineapple or mango, chopped small (350g)
- 1 cup rolled oats (85g)
- 3-4 tbsp Sucanat or brown sugar (depending on desired sweetness) (30g)
- 1/16 tsp uncut stevia, or 2 extra tbsp Sucanat or brown sugar (or 2 NuNaturals packets)
- 3 tbsp ground flaxmeal (or ground chia) (18g)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 1/2 tbsp coconut or vegetable oil (35g)
- 2/3 cup milk of choice (160g)
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract (2g)
- optional ingredients: 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or 1/2 cup shredded coconut
- 1/2 cup more milk of choice (120g)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 F and lightly grease an 8-in square baking pan. Combine first two ingredients in a bowl, then pour in an even layer into the bottom of the pan. In a mixing bowl, combine all remaining ingredients but the last 1/2 cup milk, and stir to combine. Spread this evenly over the pineapple or mango, then pour the remaining 1/2 cup milk evenly on top. Bake 35 minutes, then let sit 5 minutes before cutting into slices, using a knife or a very-large cookie cutter. Makes 4-6 servings. For a piña colada oatmeal variation: add 1/2 cup shredded coconut to the mixing bowl. Use canned coconut milk as your milk of choice.
Do you prefer to see larger recipes or single-serving recipes?
I will still post a mix of both, but seeing the majority vote is helpful when I’m developing recipes, so I can know which types of recipes to focus on more often.
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I love a hearty and simple baked oatmeal recipe. A great twist to the regular oatmeal we usually consume for our daily breakfast!
Hi Katie!
I love this so much! It is delicious I made it exactly to the recipe last night and ate nearly half of it (4 servings – what you oon?)! I’m trying to gain weight at the moment but the healthy way, and your website it perfect so thank you 🙂 as for your question, I prefer single-serving recipes and make them the most as there is only 1 of me here and things taste best fresh! Also, there are loads of big recipes out there but single-serving recipes seem exclusive to CCK so you can make something for yourself on a night in instead of raiding the pantry or grabbing a pint of ice cream. 😉 But all your recipes are great, my favourite so far is the cookie pie and the pumpkin pie but yet to try lots of recipes here still 🙂
Single serving for sure! There are not many single serving recipes out there, compared to ‘normal’ size recipes. And personally, I always find addition or multiplication of a recipe easier than division. One of the reasons I prefer to look on your site as one of the first is because I know I’ll find something I want for a snack or dessert in a single serving, or at least find a recipe close.
Anyway, that’s my 2 cents.
Large recipes please! Thanks 🙂
This is a wonderful recipe that looks appetizing and healthy. Oats is a good source of fiber that helps flush out toxins and helps with digestion. Thank you for sharing this recipe!!
This looks absolutely delicious and will definitely test it out. I was wondering if Sucanat is actually sugar, I have been using xylatol recently but it really isn’t that sweet. I made under 100 calories brownies last night using oats, low fat yoghurt, almond milk, coco powder, egg and xylatol and although it looked like a brownie, smelt like a brownie and even had the texture of one, it didn’t taste much like one. Do you have any other suggestion of sweeteners that are sugar free?
Oh and I also prefer larger servings, as I give them to my friends, or at dinner parties or even freeze for an other time!
This looks yummy! Oh, and I prefer recipes for larger sizes. Gotta feed the crew! 🙂
I love pineapple in my oatmeal. That’s actually a regular meal for me.
I’d like not necessarily big batch (I generally have to cook/bake for 3), but recipes that can be adapted for larger servings. That would be wonderful!
looks tasteful
I am one of those terrible Breakfast Skippers. While I love pineapple I feel like I might prefer the apple version. Maybe if I make it I’ll be more inclined to eat some breakfast!