Strawberry Baked Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 2 c. old fashioned oats
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 c. milk
- 1/3 c. pure maple syrup
- 4 T. butter melted and cooled to room temperature
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 1 1/2 c. (divided) strawberries (fresh or frozen) chop most of them to mix in the oatmeal, save a few to slice and place on the top.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray and 8x8 glass baking dish with cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, mix together oats, cinnamon, baking powder and salt.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the milk, maple syrup, melted butter, egg, and vanilla. (Make sure the butter is cooled. I also like to add it before the egg, so the milk continues to cool it. Otherwise you can get bits of scrambled egg in your oatmeal...)
- Pour wet ingredients over the dry ingredients and stir to combine. Gently stir in the chopped strawberries.
- Pour mixture into baking ban and place the reserved sliced strawberries on top.
- Bake for 40 minutes, until set.
Notes
Helping Hands: This is a great recipe to make with kids! It's pretty easy for them to help pour and mix the dry ingredients. Then depending on their age and demeanor, they can help with mixing the wet ingredients depending on how tolerant you are of messes and assuming they won't try to eat it with the raw egg in it. My son loves stirring it all together and also loved "plopping" in the strawberries at the end.
*Many different types of fruit would work for this. We have made it with raspberries, blueberries, and peaches. I also have sliced 1-2 bananas into discs and placed them in the bottom of the pan before pouring the rest of the mixture on top and that is good as well. You can totally customize this to your preference.
*I used to make this with 1/3 cup white granulated sugar and it worked well also. I now prefer pure maple syrup because it's healthier and we like the taste a little bit better, but either would work depending on your preference.