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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So yummy!!!
I like the larger versions of recipes. I make them once per week, cut them up and freeze them to heat on a daily basis!
Thanks!
Larger recipes please. I love your site, but I have a family of four, so the single serve recipes aren’t practical for me and I usually don’t try them even though they look good. Even when I’m making something just for me, I prefer to make a few servings and have extra for the next few days. I’m busy, so if I’m going to get out a lot of ingredients and cook, I want more than one serving to show for my effort. The oatmeal looks awesome!
Love the Beatles lyrics. 😉 And this recipe! I’ve been looking for an egg and nut free baked oatmeal recipe for a while now!
I like the larger quantity recipes. I don’t know how this is done, but I have seen cooking websites (allrecipes.com is one) where you can input the number of servings you want and it automatically changes the quantities in the recipes for you. Would be helpful for those of us who’d like to turn single recipes into food for a family of 4.
I prefer larger-scale recipes simply because I’m making them for a family of 4. Your recipes are all so good that I can never just keep them for myself. 😉
Looks wonderfully yummy!!! I definately prefer the larger serving recipes ’cause there are 6 of us! Also prefer the conventional oven cooking, rather than microwave.
larger recipes, mostly because I like as little work as possible, so when it comes to something like a breakfast recipe, I want something large I can bake on Sunday and eat all week 🙂
Mmm this looks so super tasty! Can’t wait to try it out. Scanned this post quickly before heading to the grocery store and picked up pineapple so I can give it a go =)
I love single serving recipes! It’s just me for half the year, and then me and the bf for the other half, so it’s easy enough to make 2 of a single serving recipe for those times. I never know what to do with a recipe that serves 6 so I either don’t make it, or throw most of it away if it doesn’t freeze well. So better to make smaller sized recipes for me personally. 🙂
Large quantity, I bake for my family and I don’t like to do the math. 🙂