Baked Individual Oatmeal Cups

Ingredients:

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups applesauce, unsweetened

1 banana, mashed

1 1/2 teaspoons stevia powder you could also use 1/2 cup honey

5 cups, rolled oats

1 teaspoon salt

3 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 cup flaxseed meal

1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

2 3/4 cups milk

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix first 5 ingredients in a bowl.

Add in next 5 ingredients and mix well. Lastly, pour in your milk and stir. It will be pretty runny. Make sure you spray a 12 and 6 capacity muffin tin with cooking spray or use cupcake liners. Divide mixture evenly into muffin tin cups. I should have filled them up more (as you can see in the picture). They do not rise that much- so go ahead and fill them up!

If you are going to use toppings, add them onto the tops of muffins before baking. I topped mine with mini chocolate chips, but the possibilities are endless!

Bake 30 minutes.  I let mine cool and then frozen them in a freezer bag.

I was really surprised, but the boys really like to eat these of the morning. I take them out of the freezer and pop them in the microwave for about 20 seconds. They pick them up like a muffin.

Recipe from Sugar Free Mom.

Oatmeal Pancakes

I have tons of oatmeal. Like 50 lbs of rolled oats. So I am looking for oatmeal recipes. I found this one and had to try it. It is really good and easy. I added mini chocolate chips to each one for a little treat and sweetness (since the pancakes are not sweet).

Oatmeal Pancakes

Yield: about 12+ pancakes

Time: 15 minutes

2 1/2 C milk

1/3 C oil

2 eggs

1 t salt

2 1/2 t baking powder

2 C oatmeal

1 C whole wheat flour

Place all of the ingredients in the blender and blend.

Let the batter stand for 2-5 minutes to let it thicken slightly.

Then cook like regular pancakes. They will be slightly flatter than normal pancakes. And I also sprinkled them with mini chocolate chips. With a little bit of syrup you won't miss the sugar in them! They were even good the next day.

Recipe from Jamie Cooks It Up!

Pumpkin Spice Baked Oatmeal

I found this recipe and adapted it via A Pretty Life in the Suburbs. And it was so yummy. I literally couldn't keep Carson out of it!

Baked Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal:

3 cups old fashioned rolled oats (not the quick-cooking kind)

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

2 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice

1/2 tsp vanilla

1/4 cup applesauce 

3 eggs

1 1/2 cups milk

1/2 cup pure pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie mix)

1/2 cup raisins, optional

• Whisk together eggs, applesauce, milk and vanilla.  Then stir in pumpkin puree.
• In a separate bowl, mix together oats, sugar, baking powder, salt and spice.
• Combine egg mixture and oat mixture.
• Add raisins, if desire.
• Pour into an 8x8 baking dish.  At this point you may, cover and refrigerate overnight, or just bake as directed.
• If refrigerated in the morning, give the oatmeal a little stir.  
• Then put the dish into a cold oven, and bake at 350 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes.