My e book Tremendous Herbal Each Day was once revealed in 2011, and instantly one of the vital widespread recipes in it was once the baked oatmeal. The cookbook serious about recipes made with herbal, minimally-processed elements and the baked oatmeal made with rolled oats, toasted nuts, and a lot of berries was an easy go-to breakfast for numerous other people. I’ve baked unending diversifications on it within the decade since, and make a muffin tin model of the unique recipe each time we wish a very simple breakfast-on-the-go choice.

Those baked oatmeal cups are made with rolled oats, chopped bananas, nuts and berries baked in a vanilla-spiked milk combination (you’ll be able to use no matter milk you favor). You bake them till the entirety comes in combination in a golden crowned breakfast at the move. They’re flourless and gluten-free should you supply gluten-free oats. You’ll be able to experience them dairy-free should you use dairy-free milk. All in all, they’re filled with goodness, kid-friendly, and tremendous tasty. 

Diversifications

The other diversifications on baked oatmeal cups are unending. For starters, you’ll be able to experiment with other liquids. I’ve baked variations with the entirety from buttermilk to oat milk to coconut milk to toasted coconut milk(!). Subsequent, you’ll be able to transfer up the culmination. Those are berry and cherry-centric, however there’s no explanation why you’ll be able to’t change in sautéed apples, or caramelized bananas, or stone culmination like pluots and apricots. You’ll be able to experiment with sweeteners – maple syrup works nice. A decadent model I took word of remaining summer season was once featured chopped cherries and chocolate chunks. Additionally, you’ll be able to all the time return to baking the mix in an 8×8-inch baking dish if you wish to have. Different concepts:

• Almond baked oatmeal cups: change in almond extract for the vanilla extract, and use sliced almonds as your nut element
• Vegan baked oatmeal cups: upload I tablespoon chia seeds and three tablespoons of water to the rainy combination within the recipe instead of the egg.
• Mess around along with your spices: transcend the cinnamon.
• Dial up the coconut and citrus: coconut baked oatmeal

For the batch I made remaining week, I had a lot of blueberries and strawberries from the farmers’ marketplace. Cherry season simply kicked off as smartly, and they are so best and candy. I pitted and added a few of the ones to the combo as smartly. 

To make the oatmeal cups you mix the dry elements and fruit, after which mix it with the rainy elements in a big bowl. Wait a couple of mins to permit the mix to return in combination a little, the oats will get started to take in probably the most liquid.

One technical tip right here: you wish to have to fill each and every muffin cup kind of 3/4 complete. You additionally desire a balanced mix of oats and any of the residual liquid. You’ll be able to see within the pictures above and under what the pan must appear to be previous to baking.

How To Retailer Baked Oatmeal Cups

To avoid wasting any baked oatmeal cups you aren’t eating to your baking day you’ve got a couple of choices. You’ll be able to retailer them, refrigerated, in an air-tight container, for a couple of days. Convey them again to room temperature ahead of serving or reheat in a toaster oven, and so forth.

How To Freeze Baked Oatmeal Cups

Sure, you’ll be able to freeze them! Permit baked oatmeal cups to chill totally previous to freezing. Prepare in one layer on a baking sheet and freeze. Switch to freezer-safe bag for as much as a month or so. Permit the oatmeal cups to return again as much as room temperature ahead of serving. You’ll be able to reheat them for added goodness. If you realize you wish to have oatmeal cups for breakfast, let them thaw within the entrance of the fridge in a single day. Cross from there within the morning.

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