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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Looks delicious! I just baked a pineapple dessert over the weekend too, and because of the picky eaters in my house, I had to eat all of it by myself… Oh darn! 😉
I think it’d be interesting to do a compromise of single-lady and multiple-serving desserts. Maybe adapt recipes for 4 servings, since that seems to be the average size of a household? Just a thought!
Love, love, your site!!!! I keep several of your single serving recipes on the kitchen counter — always. I would like to see more dinner single serving. Some of my favorite recipes are:pumpkin pie stir fry, sweet potato shepherd’s pie,blueberry pie pancakes and pumpkin boatmeal for one. To die for after working out…. one-minute chocolate cake!!!! Keep the recipes coming.
Looks delicious. I prefer single serve.
I prefer a bigger recipe, like this one in an 8×8 pan, or a dozen muffins. If I’m going to cook, I like to have leftovers.
I am cooking for 6 kiddos! Your site is so great for us vegan/vegetarians trying to survive cooking for families….so I will take anything you offer but admit that sometimes I skip the single serving recipes just because I would have to times them by 13 or 14 🙂 I love your stuff and those oatmeal breakfast muffins are beyond wildly popular in our house. I make a double batch about every 3-4 days along with tons of other things from your site. Thank you, thank you!!!
Large recipes are always great, but I do love when you do the single-serving ones! So few other bloggers do it and yours are just awesome.
I prefer single-serving recipes.
I love the single-serving recipes…. They are easy because I am the only one who eats oatmeal in my family!
I vote for single serving recipes because I try those much more often and they are rare to find (CCK’s niche-and yours are the best).
Larger servings I usually reserve for special occasions. Although I wish it were different, it’s been about 40/60 chance other people have loved a healthier version. The overdose of butter, sugar and cream I’ve come to dislike are still really popular 🙁
I enjoy both, but I’ll go with single-serving. Thanks!