Connie’s G/F Baked Oatmeal with Apples!
Great for breakfast or dessert! LOL! I love serving this oatmeal to overnight guests.
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 3 cups gluten free rolled oats (Trader Joe's are my go-to)
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
- 2 tsps cinnamon
- 1 ½ tsps baking powder (NOT baking soda)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup or more of chopped pecans (walnuts worked perfectly, as well)
- 1 cup dried cranberries (add blueberries, raisins, whatever you love!)
Wet Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups milk (I used 2% milk)
- ½ cup heavy organic whipping cream
- 3 ½ tbsps unsalted butter, melted
- 2 tbsps pure maple syrup
- 2 eggs, at room temp, whisked
- 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 2 2 Granny Smith apples, peeled & cut into small cubes
Instructions
DIRECTIONS TO SAUTEE APPLES:
- Preheat oven to 350
- Peel & cube 2 Granny Smith apples (approx 4 cups)
- Melt 2 tbsps. unsalted butter
- Add apples and stir
- Add 2 tbsps. brown sugar
- Add 1 tsp. cinnamon
HOW TO MAKE IT:
- Butter 11- inch baking dish
- Layer cubed apples on bottom of dish
- Combine dry ingredients in a bowl; stir to mix
- Whisk eggs in another bowl & add rest of wet ingredients, except butter
- Add milk mixture to oats; stir in butter
- Pour the mixture over the cubed apples
- Add more chopped pecans to the top of the mixture, optional
- Bake at 350 for approx 35-40 minutes until the oatmeal is set and golden brown.
- Let set a couple of minutes. Serve with a drizzle of warm maple syrup, of course, this is optional, but highly recommended!
- Just a reminder, this is not your low cal oatmeal, but you can certainly substitute ingredients. Fat free milk, honey, agave, etc.