Healthy Apple Fritter Baked Oatmeal

I’m am obsessive about apple fritters. I’m obsessive about baked oatmeal. So I mashed the 2 collectively in a wholesome apple fritter baked oatmeal and it’s rockstar standing!

Our first Saturday morning with out an oz. of errands or unpacking and we would have liked , quaint household breakfast and surprisingly one of many kiddos had requested for oatmeal so clearly I needed to go all out.

Oh expensive, so begins one other obsession. Prepare, people as a result of I’m about to start out creating 50 totally different variations of baked oats recipes.

What taste mixture would you want subsequent? To date we have now a creme brulee baked oatmeal, a blackberry cobbler baked oatmeal, and two mug baked protein oatmeal recipes – chocolate chip cookie and peanut butter chocolate chip.

Once we had lastly settled into a brand new metropolis again in August, I used to be dragging my ft to get cooking once more. I’d barely cooked actual meals all summer time attributable to packing and now most of our kitchen stuff is in a storage unit and it’s been exhausting to seek out the motivation to get going once more. However alas, I additionally detest not having sit down household dinners or consuming out on a regular basis, so I placed on my massive woman pants and completely eased into it. No leaping in whenever you’re exhausted from life, am I proper?

What higher technique to ease in than to make breakfast for dinner recipes?

This wholesome breakfast recipe is the proper answer and took place from me winging it with random pantry substances. However my goodness, when you’ve each a 16 and 6 yr previous raving over OATMEAL you recognize you’ve discovered a winner! 

Components for Apple Fritter Baked Oatmeal

Within the subsequent part, I’m going to enter find out how to make this easy breakfast recipe, however very first thing’s first, listed below are the substances you have to:

• Outdated-Long-established Rolled Oats – quaint actually do work the perfect, instantaneous oats get too soggy and metal minimize outs don’t soften up sufficient
• Eggs – bind the baked oatmeal collectively
• Milk – you should use any sort of milk you need
• Apple Butter (or Unsweetened Applesauce) – apple butter provides a bit of further richness and buttery taste, however applesauce works simply nice too
• Maple Syrup – pure maple syrup is most well-liked
• Vanilla Extract – provides the perfect taste
• Cinnamon, Ginger, Nutmeg, Allspice – all the nice and cozy fall spices that go so properly with apples
• Salt – enhances all of the flavors
• Baking Soda – offers the baked oatmeal some rise and fluffiness
• Golden Raisins – common raisins will work tremendous too, I simply favor the flavour of golden raisins
• Sliced Almonds (elective) – generally I embrace them and generally I don’t, they add some good crunch and protein
• Minced Dried Apples – you should definitely get dried apples

For the Glaze

• Powdered Sugar – all of the sweetness 
• Milk – improve or lower to alter the thickness to your liking
• Vanilla Extract – taste, in fact

The measurements for every ingredient may be discovered within the recipe card on the finish of this submit. It’s also possible to print or save the recipe there. 

The way to Make Apple Fritter Baked Oatmeal

I’m all concerning the simple breakfast recipes! So there may be not a lot to make this baked apple oatmeal recipe. Listed below are the steps:

1. Prep: Preheat the oven to 375 levels and grease a sq. 8×8″ baking dish.
2. Mix: In a big bowl, mix all of the dry substances and the milk and stir every part collectively. Add the vanilla and maple syrup.
3. Stir: Add the eggs and stir them in.
4. Fold: Stir within the raisins and apples and mix every part collectively.
5. Bake: Pour every part into the ready baking dish. Then bake the the casserole for 40-45 minutes. Whereas it’s baking, make the glaze.
6. Whisk: For the glaze, whisk every part collectively in a small bowl and set it apart till it’s carried out baking. Let the baked oatmeal cool barely earlier than pouring the glaze on prime.
7. Serve: Eat it heat with recent berries, a dollop of yogurt on prime or with some heat milk poured over it.

The whole recipe can discovered within the recipe card on the finish of the submit!

Variations

If you wish to skip the glaze, you could possibly prime this baked oatmeal with a drizzle of maple syrup or honey. You would additionally sprinkle some nuts, like walnuts, almonds or pecans, excessive.

Baked Oatmeal Tip!

Don’t use recent apples on this explicit recipe. As a result of we wish to preserve the crunchy texture on prime, the recent apples would launch an excessive amount of liquid. Freeze dried apples aren’t the identical as dehydrated apples. These are just like what I purchase at our native retailer like Winco.

The way to Make Apple Fritter Baked Oatmeal Allergy Free

This recipe may be very versatile, so it’s simple to make it allergy free. To make it gluten-free, be certain that your oats are gf and you’re golden.

To make it dairy-free, swap the milk in each the baked oatmeal and glaze with soy, oat, coconut or almond milk. Be sure you use applesauce slightly than apple butter.

Extra Apple Recipes

Should you love all issues apple, like I do, then you need to strive just a few extra of our favourite apple recipes on the weblog. I’m a sucker for a heat breakfast recipe like our apple cinnamon rolls, or apple pie slow cooker oatmeal, or our apple coffee cake muffins.

And who can overlook the apple desserts? Nothing beats a classic apple crisp, an apple cream pie, or an apple pie bread pudding!

The way to Retailer, Reheat and Freeze Baked Oatmeal

Okay, again to this baked oatmeal! In case you have some leftover, it shops extraordinarily properly within the within the fridge in an hermetic container for as much as 4 days. My children love consuming baked oatmeal leftovers. We simply pop it within the microwave to reheat it as particular person servings.

Freezing baked oatmeal can be a fantastic possibility. Let it cool fully then wrap it in plastic wrap and retailer it in a ziploc bag. I wish to wrap particular person servings so my children can simply seize them and heat them up themselves. It’ll preserve within the freezer for as much as 3 months. You’ll be able to reheat it from frozen within the microwave for a few minutes.

If I’m reheating a single serving, I simply use the microwave. If I’m going to reheat a full baked oatmeal, then I heat it up within the oven on 325 for 8-10 minutes.

With fall simply across the nook, it was time for me to share this breakfast mashup. Apple fritter baked oatmeal is heat, comforting, and every part a comfy fall breakfast must be!

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