We love baked oatmeal at our house, and these portion-sized freezer-friendly baked oatmeal cups are perfect for on-the-go healthy snacks or breakfast!
The following is a guest post from Brenda of Sugar-Free Mom.
Whether you are trying to lose weight, eat healthier, or lower your grocery bill, I’ve got a recipe for you to try! It’s economical, versatile, freezable, portion-controlled, and downright delicious.
You’ll Love These Freezer-Friendly Baked Oatmeal Muffins!
This Freezer-Friendly Baked Oatmeal is great if you’re looking for ways to eat fewer pre-packaged food items, provide healthier snacks for your kids, have some freezer snacks on hand, or just make more of your own food to help you stick to a food budget!
Not only is this recipe super easy AND delicious, it’s also not made in a big casserole dish! It makes 18 individualized baked oatmeal portions for ease of serving, packing in lunches, or taking on the go.
This recipe also has very little processed sugar. In fact, you can just use Stevia, sucanat, and natural fruits to do all the sweetening without any processed sugar at all.
Oh, and it’s very inexpensive to make!
Baked Oatmeal Cup Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1 Tablespoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 6 1/2 droppers full stevia (I use Sweetleaf Stevia)
- 1/2 cup Sucanat or brown sugar (Note: if not using any Stevia increase your choice of sugar to 1 cup.)
- 1 banana, sliced
- 1 cup fruit of your choice — frozen or fresh blueberries, fresh or dried cranberries, frozen or fresh mango, or chocolate chips (see nutrition info below)
- 5 cups old-fashioned oats
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup flax seed, ground
- 1 Tablespoon cinnamon
- 2 1/2 cups 1% milk
How to Make Baked Oatmeal Cups
1. Preheat oven to 350ºF.
2. In a large bowl, mix eggs, vanilla, applesauce, and Stevia until combined.
3. Add Sucanat, banana, and other fruit of your choice. If using chocolate chips add them last.
4. In another bowl, mix oats, salt, baking powder, flax seed, and cinnamon.
5. Dump dry ingredients into wet ingredients; mix well.
6. Pour in milk and stir until combined.
7. Spray one 12 and one 6-cup muffin tin with cooking spray or use cupcake liners.
8. Scoop mixture evenly into muffin cups.
9. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until the center of each muffin is set.
10. Cool and enjoy — or freeze them in gallon freezer bags.
Variations
There are so many ways you can tweak this recipe to make it fit your family’s taste preferences (or whatever ingredients you already have in the house.)
- Use different sweeteners like maple syrup or honey
- Try a different combination of fruits
- Test different spice combinations
- Use different milk (almond, soy, etc.) or even try Greek yogurt instead
If you come up with a recipe combo you love, make sure to come back and share it with us!
How to Store and Reheat Baked Oatmeal Muffins Cups
Let muffins cool completely and then refrigerate in a food storage container or ziptop bag for up to 5 days.
This recipe freezes wonderfully in freezer bags if you want to make a bunch ahead of time.
To reheat frozen muffin cups, simply remove the number you want from the freezer and let defrost at room temperature. You can eat them cold or microwave them for a few seconds to warm them up.
Is Baked Oatmeal Supposed to be Refrigerated?
Yes. After the oatmeal is baked, any leftovers should be refrigerated (or frozen).
Baked Oatmeal Muffin Tips:
- I buy the basic ingredients at Aldi and the rest at Target or Whole Foods.
- You can find many varieties of chocolate chips without refined sugar at Whole Foods and online.
- I use grain-sweetened or stevia-sweetened chocolate chips, but carob chips are also delicious as well.
- Using different fruits does not change the nutrition info all that much.
- Using chocolate chips does change the nutrition info and you will see that difference noted above.
Baked Oatmeal Cup FAQs
If your oven temperature isn’t hot enough, the baking process may take a long time to get started. Also, if you don’t have enough liquid in your batter, the oats won’t be able to absorb enough to fully cook.
Baked oats are gooey until they are fully cooked, so you likely just need to bake them for another 5-10 minutes.
Yes. The results won’t be quite as rich and creamy, but it’s an easy substitution.
Baked Oatmeal Cups Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 6 1/2 droppers full stevia I use Sweetleaf Stevia
- 1/2 cup Sucanat or brown sugar Note: if not using any Stevia increase your choice of sugar to 1 cup.
- 1 banana sliced
- 1 cup fruit of your choice — frozen or fresh blueberries fresh or dried cranberries, frozen or fresh mango, or chocolate chips (see nutrition info below)
- 5 cups old-fashioned oats
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup flax seed ground
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- 2 1/2 cup 1% milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- In a large bowl, mix eggs, vanilla, applesauce, and Stevia until combined.
- Add Sucanat, banana, and other fruit of your choice. (If using chocolate chips add them last)
- In another bowl, mix oats, salt, baking powder, flax seed, and cinnamon.
- Dump dry ingredients into wet ingredients; mix well.
- Pour in milk and stir until combined.
- Spray one 12 and one 6-cup muffin tin with cooking spray or use cupcake liners.
- Scoop mixture evenly into muffin cups.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes or until the center of each muffin is set.
- Cool and enjoy — or freeze them in gallon freezer bags.
Nutrition Info for Baked Oatmeal:
Nutrition Info with Fruit: Servings: 18* Serving size: 1* Calories: 155.7* Fat: 3g* Fiber: 3.7g* Carbs: 25.2g* Protein: 5.7g* Points+: 4* Old Points: 3*
Nutrition Info for Chocolate Chip Baked Oatmeal: Serving size: 1* Calories: 196* Fat: 6.7g* Fiber: 4g* Carbs: 30.3g* Protein: 6.1g* Points+: 5 Old Points: 6*
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Brenda Bennett is a homeschooling mom of three and author of Sugar-Free Mom.com, where you will find great recipes for yourself and your family, as well as health-related issues about exercise and refined sugar-free alternatives.