This Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Baked Oatmeal is one of those breakfasts that feels a little like dessert but is made with wholesome ingredients I feel good about serving my family. It’s soft, perfectly spiced, and studded with melty chocolate chips in every bite.

Honestly, this is one of my favorite breakfasts to make when I don’t feel like cooking in the morning. Everything gets mixed together the night before or while I’m making dinner, then all I have to do is bake it when we need breakfast.

My kids especially love it with a dollop of vanilla yogurt on top. Between the pumpkin, warm spices, and chocolate chips, it tastes almost like pumpkin chocolate chip cookies for breakfast.

Ingredients You’ll Need

This pumpkin baked oatmeal recipe uses simple pantry ingredients plus pumpkin, apple butter and plenty of warm fall spices.

• Apple Butter: Adds concentrated apple flavor, sweetness and even more fall spice.
• Pumpkin Purée: Adds moisture and pumpkin flavor. Be sure to use pure pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling.
• Maple Syrup: Sweetens the oatmeal and pairs perfectly with the pumpkin and spices.
• Olive Oil: Adds moisture and keeps the oatmeal tender.
• Apple Cider Vinegar: Reacts with the baking soda and helps give the baked oatmeal a lighter texture.
• Vanilla Extract: Rounds out all those warm fall flavors.
• Cinnamon: Adds extra warmth and spice.
• Pumpkin Pie Spice: Gives us those classic cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and clove flavors.
• Skim Milk: Adds moisture so the oats soften as they bake.
• Old-Fashioned Rolled Oats: Give the baked oatmeal its hearty, chewy texture.
• Baking Soda: Gives the oatmeal a little lift.
• Sea Salt: Balances the sweetness and brings out the other flavors.
• Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips: Because pumpkin + chocolate forever.

Healthy Apple Fritter Baked Oatmeal

I’m am obsessed with apple fritters. I am obsessed with baked oatmeal. So I mashed the two together in a healthy apple fritter baked oatmeal and it is rockstar status!

Our first Saturday morning without an ounce of errands or unpacking and we needed a good, old fashioned family breakfast and surprisingly one of the kiddos had asked for oatmeal so obviously I had to go all out.

Oh dear, so begins another obsession. Get ready, folks because I’m about to start creating 50 different versions of baked oatmeal recipes.

What flavor combination would you like next?

When we had finally settled into a new city back in August I was dragging my feet to get cooking again. I’d barely cooked real meals all summer due to packing and now most of our kitchen stuff is in a storage unit and it’s been hard to find the motivation to get going again. But alas, I also detest not having sit down family dinners or eating out all the time, so I put on my big girl pants and totally eased into it. No jumping in when you’re exhausted from life, am I right?

What better way to ease in than to make breakfast for dinner recipes?

This healthy breakfast recipe is the perfect solution and came about from me winging it with random pantry ingredients. But my goodness, when you have both a 16 and 6 year old raving over OATMEAL you know you’ve found a winner! 

Ingredients for Apple Fritter Baked Oatmeal

In the next section, I’m going to go into how to make this simple breakfast recipe, but first thing’s first, here are the ingredients you will need:

• Old Fashioned Oats – old fashioned really do work the best, instant oats get too soggy and steel cut outs don’t soften up enough
• Eggs – bind the baked oatmeal together
• Milk – you can use any kind of milk you want
• Apple Butter (or Applesauce) – apple butter adds a little extra richness and buttery flavor, but applesauce works just great too
• Maple Syrup – pure maple syrup is preferred
• Vanilla – adds the best flavor
• Cinnamon, Ginger, Nutmeg, Allspice – all the warm fall spices that go so well with apples
• Salt – enhances all the flavors
• Baking Soda – gives the baked oatmeal some rise and fluffiness
• Golden Raisins – regular raisins will work fine too, I just prefer the flavor of golden raisins
• Sliced Almonds (optional) – sometimes I include them and sometimes I don’t, they add some nice crunch and protein
• Minced Dried Apples – be sure to get dried apples

For the Glaze

• Powdered Sugar – all the swe

Creme Brulee Amish Baked Oatmeal

Have you tried baked oatmeal before?? It’s so delicious, I can hardly stand it! We are huge oatmeal lovers, but this Amish creme brulee version wins the grand prize!

A few years ago some friends went out to brunch with us (yes, we are total brunchers and if you haven’t caught that bug, by all means JUMP IN!!) and we had this glorious amount of food delivered to our table. When in a group, always order many things so you can sample the menu, am I right?! I knew, absolutely KNEW that the french toast at Gourmandise was going to be my winner and was flabbergasted (when’s the last time you wrote that word? 😏) when it was the oatmeal!

Now, you know I am an older woman at heart, so it shouldn’t surprise you that I LOVED the oatmeal, but to be the winner? That takes something special. Well, since I’ve been on this baked oatmeal kick, why not try a Gourmandise Creme Brulee Amish Baked Oatmeal?!

Just try to not pick off the entire topping, it is HEAVEN!!

What is Amish Baked Oatmeal?

Amish baked oatmeal like a warm oatmeal cookie but in casserole form that is made with oats, milk and a few other ingredients you will already have on hand. Traditional oatmeal is like cereal with a creamy porridge consistency. Baked oatmeal is more like a casserole or bread pudding. It is super versatile with endless amounts of add-ins or toppings. I’ll go into that more later in this post.

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