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