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 bit of both…. but I vote larger! I have a family of 8 to feed, and I normally have to quadruple (or more) your recipes. I really do hope to see bigger recipes, and this is Saturday’s breakfast (got some mangoes I gotta use up)!
Thanks for asking us- but either way, the taste is what counts 🙂
I MUCH prefer larger sized recipes. I have never in my life made a single serving dessert, even when I was single.
This is too cute! I love the heart shaped baked oatmeal. Mine are always just round which totally aren’t as fun. I also love that there is mango or pineapple. I always stick to banana and pumpkin, but I should branch out to other fruits! Yum.
I always prefer and love to see single serve recipes! Just makes it much easier for me!
I mean that way it’s so easy to double or triple them! Just my opinion though 🙂
This oatmeal recipe just makes me smile, for the name and for the ingredients! I bet the caramelized fruit just makes it taste so amazing and would brighten up anyones day. I love that I can come to your website for single serving recipes and smaller recipes, it’s definitely something unique about your site. But once in a while it’s great to have a larger recipe (especially when you post meals) so I vote for the mix!
I like single serving recipes but it’s easy to cut the recipe down if you post how many servings the recipe caters for.
Hi! First I will answer your question and say that I like both but mostly single serving recipes. I did just make the white bean blondies for a family dinner though so it is good to have multiple-serving recipes as well. Next I want to say that I love your blog. I am a breastfeeding mommy who struggles to keep myself from losing weight. Your recipes makes that fun. Every night right before bed, I eat another meal and I usually make it from one if your recipes. My favorite is the coconut cookie dough boatoatmeal with coconut butter and dark chocolate. I just ordered some cacao nibs. Do you ever use these? How does the taste compare to dark chocolate chips when in a recipe? I already use raw cacao powder but haven’t tried the nibs…
I sprinkle them on things. I wouldn’t recommend using them in place of chips in a recipe, though.The taste is completely different.
My recipe preference is for ones that feed one or two (for things like smoothies that you can’t really save for another day). For things that keep in the fridge, 4 or 6 servings is good. This recipe sounds like fun (I’d do it with mango), but I would have to find a protein source to balance out the carbs.
Single serving for sure! There are lots of other websites that give recipes for family-sized yields, and your blog is unique in how it has a lot of single serving recipes.
Another idea could be to add a calculator that adjusts the recipes based on how many servings you want, like on allrecipes.com
This sounds amazing! I’m going to have to make it. I could use a more tropical breakfast haha. Thanks, Katie!
– Danielle
http://www.keenbeauty.com
I love your single serve recipes because my hubby doesn’t like everything that I do. But am glad you will still post larger recipes too because he will try some and nummy leftovers are always good!