This is for you if your family dislikes the texture of ordinary oatmeal. It resembles cake more. At the sports camp my kids attended, this was the most frequently requested recipe. The recipe was altered by me to reduce the fat and sugar, and my kids love eating it for morning. Make a pan on Monday and start the rest of the week with a simple, wholesome breakfast.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 30 mins |
| Servings: | 10 |
| Yield: | 1 9×13-inch pan |
Ingredients
- 6 cups quick-cooking oats
- 1 ½ cups milk
- 4 eggs, lightly beaten
- ⅔ cup chunky applesauce
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup butter
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Mix oats, milk, eggs, applesauce, brown sugar, butter, white sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and vanilla extract together in a bowl until oats are evenly moistened; pour into prepared baking dish.
- Bake in the preheated oven until set and just golden brown, 20 to 30 minutes.
- Substitute vegetable oil for the butter, if desired.
- Eat it as is or serve with milk to pour over the top. Stir in 1/2 to 1 cup of fresh chopped fruits and/or nuts like bananas, apples, blueberries, pecans, or dried fruits like raisins, Craisins®, apricots etc. before baking, if desired.
- It stores will in the fridge for up to a week. Just scoop out the amount you want for breakfast or a snack and microwave until warm, about 30 to 60 seconds.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 356 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 53 g |
| Cholesterol | 94 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 5 g |
| Protein | 10 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 194 mg |
| Sugars | 20 g |
| Fat | 12 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I made this recipe using Monk fruit sweetener and olive oil. We really liked these chewy oatmeal bars! I sprinkled chocolate chips on top before baking. Half the recipe made 9 pieces for me.
Meh. I guess I was envisioning something like a crisp, which this definitely is not. I made half with raisins and half plain. The flavor was okay, but I didn’t like the consistency, and ended up eating it with milk. I don’t see the value in taking the time to bake it (and adding unhealthy ingredients like eggs, sugar, and butter) over just cooking it on the stove and adding some milk and honey. I think I will try it again with strawberries and some almonds (to give it a crunch, because it was too soft for my taste). My son liked it, though.
I will definitely make this again. So good! I added dried cranberries and blueberries with sliced almonds on top. Yum!!!
A half recipe of this fits nicely into a 12 cup muffin pan. I wish it had less sugar, but it’s good and portable.
Very good recipe. Made as written except splenda for white sugar and a little more milk. Flavor was good. Added pecans throughout and did half choc chips and half craisins. Both varieties were good. Overall it was a dry when eaten plain, would use a more applesauce/milk next time. Cooked 25 min.
Ok, just not what I was hoping for.
This is a great base recipe. I’ve made it 3 times, adding dried cranberries and chopped walnuts each time, substituting applesauce for the oil, and only using 1/4 cup brown sugar for both sugars. (The second time I bought steel cut oats by mistake — would NOT recommend that.) The 3rd time I mistakenly dumped a container of applesauce in before realizing I forgot the eggs, and it still turned out great! We’ve finished a pan in a matter of days, and my eaters are all 4 and under.
It made a huge batch, but unfortunately it wasn’t something we cared for. It tasted too much like bland health food with not too much flavor. I added extra applesauce and raisins too..but still we didn’t care for it.
I love this baked oatmeal!!! I am a ten year old and it is super easy to make! I will make this again. 🙂
This oatmeal is quick, easy, and feeds my large family which is great. The kiddos and hubby love it. I only make a few minor changes: I use all applesauce in place of the butter, leave out the white sugar, and add in fruit, nuts, and seeds. To speed up breakfast I often bake it before bed and then warm it in the microwave in the morning. It reheats great.
I have Made this a few times it’s quick and easy to make. My two year old loves it!
I made this for my son, he’s a fussy eater. He really liked it and so did we. It was almost like a cake, nice and moist without being overly sweet. Really simple and delicious. I liked it straight from the oven and we have been eating it cold from the fridge in little squares. I made it exactly as listed and would make it the same again, and would try variations with nuts or dried fruit thrown in. A keeper.
I halved this recipe because it is just 2 of us. It was perfect! It did come out like cake, I was able to cut it into cake pieces and the texture was really good. I did have to bake it a bit longer to get it golden brown, but that could just be the differences in ovens. Thanks!
I cook for a small summer camp and we are looking for healthy and interesting options for our menu. I never had baked oatmeal before and wanted to try it first for my family before making it for others- liked the idea that this would be more like a bar or cake than sloppy/gummy oatmeal. Good texture and flavor, though I would have liked it to be a bit more bar/cake like- took longer than stated to cook, but that could be pan size. Will definitely try this at work for a 4H group this week! ***Update- this has become one of our favorite go-to recipes for camp breakfasts! I love the added protein of the milk (sometimes even sub yogurt) and the applesauce in place of oils/fats. I make it in full sheet pans and the texture is great- holds together well- still best eaten with a fork, but can be picked up by hand as well.
This is the best baked oatmeal I have made. I just used regular applesauce since I did not have any chunky. I did decrease the butter to 1/4 cup and just did scant measuring for the sugars. This will be my new baked oatmeal recipe. It’s great the way it is and the possibilities for additions are endless. Thank you MARGARET N for sharing your recipe.
I made this for my granddaughter, and she is the one who has rated this. She loves the taste of it when it’s new from the oven, but after it sits she thinks it could’ve used a little more sugar. When it went into her lunch, she said that it was so very crumbly that it was hard to eat. She was also surprised that it had applesauce in it because she didn’t taste that at all. She was hoping I could come up with a way to make it stick together more. Any suggestions would be helpful! Thanks, Margaret N!