Baked Apple Oatmeal

Baked Apple Oatmeal is a healthy, delicious, and easy to make breakfast recipe! Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal is made with fresh apples, applesauce, and maple syrup. This Baked Oatmeal Recipe Apple has an apple pie taste and bread pudding texture. So, if you want to know How to Make Baked Oatmeal, we suggest you start with this Apple Oatmeal Breakfast Bake! We know you’ll love it!

Why We Love This Recipe

• Awesome flavor! Baked Apple Oatmeal is one of my absolute favorite breakfast recipes! If you love apple pie or maybe French toast with maple syrup, you will love this recipe. This recipe could easily made as a dessert side for any Fall recipe but you needn’t wait for Fall to enjoy this recipe. The first bite of this Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal was a delightful surprise; the warm apple bites are juicy and the oatmeal is soft, almost bread-like. The pecans sprinkled on top add a nice crunch.
• Super easy recipe! How to Make Baked Oatmeal? It’s super easy. The only work you’ll need to do is cut up a couple apples. I like my apples cut into almost perfect cubes so I take a little extra time to make sure I get the right size and shape to my apple chunks. After that, you’ll just be pouring and mixing ingredients.
• Healthy breakfast idea! This breakfast is so tasty your kids will love eating it for breakfast and it’s healthy! There are a few key ingredients in this recipe that make it nutritious. Let’s take a look at some of them.
  • Oats are high in antioxidants. One particular antioxidant called avenanthramides are found almost exclusively in oats and contain anti-inflammatory properties (1).
  • Chia seeds are loaded with antioxidants (2).
  • Apples and eating fruits in general have been linked (based on one study) to a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes (3).

Baked Apple Oatmeal Recipe

• Chia egg
• Oats
• Oat milk
• Applesauce
• Apples
• Maple syrup
• Melted Vegan butter
• Vanilla extract
• Baking powder
• Pumpkin spice
• Salt
• Pecans

How To Make Baked Oatmeal

1. Make Chia egg. In a small dish, combine 5 tablespoons of water with 2 tablespoons of chia seeds, whisk and let stand for 5 minutes until thick.
2. Preheat oven. Set oven to 350.
3. Combine all wet ingredients. In a large mixing bowl, add oat milk, applesauce, maple syrup, chia eggs, vanilla extract, and melted Vegan butter.
4. Combine all dry ingredients. In a separate large mixing bowl, add oats, baking powder, pumpkin spice, salt, and pecans. Mix well.
5. Mix all ingredients together. Pour the dried ingredients into the large mixing bowl containing the wet ingredients and mix well. Fold in diced apples.
6. Baking dish. Lightly coat a baking dish with Vegan butter.
7. Pour. Carefully pour mixture into the coated baking dish.
8. Slices of Vegan butter. Add thin slices of Vegan butter two inches apart from each other upon the top of the batter.
9. Nuts. Sprinkle a handful of chopped nuts (we used pecans) over the top of the batter.
10. Foil. Place foil over the top of the dish.
11. Bake. Place baking dish in the oven and bake for 25 to 30 minutes until top is golden.

Meal Prep Baked Apple Oatmeal

Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal is a great recipe for Vegans interested in meal prep. After you bake a tray of this Baked Apple Oatmeal, you can cut it into squares, place each square inside a plastic bag, and refrigerate. The baked oatmeal stays good for roughly 4 to 5 days and tastes amazing cold with some fresh oat milk and berries!

Tips

• Vegan butter. Make sure you place thin slices on the surface of the oatmeal before you place it in the oven. This will keep the top from burning while it bakes.
• Foil. Foil also keeps this dish from burning while it bakes.
• Rotate. I like to rotate this dish every 10 minutes to make sure all sides are evenly cooked.

Variations

• Nuts. Add any kind of nut you like. We find that walnuts and pecans go great with this dish!
• Cranberries. While I’ve not tried cranberries in this dish, I just can’t see that going wrong. Give it a shot, drop us a line and let us know how it worked out!

If you enjoyed this Vegan Plate recipe, here are other recipes you’ll love!

Vegan Breakfast Recipes

• Vegan French Toast
• Quinoa Oatmeal
• Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal
• Chia Seed Oatmeal
• Johnny Cakes
• Roasted Breakfast Potatoes

Healthy Vegan Desserts

• Vegan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Vegan Zucchini Bread
• Churro Chips

Chia Seed Egg Substitute Recipes

• Chia Egg
• Strawberry Chia Jam