Gingerbread Baked Oatmeal Recipe

This gingerbread baked oatmeal recipe is the right wholesome breakfast recipe for the vacation season. Nice for make-ahead meal prep breakfasts!

Confession – I’m a kind of those that begins listening to Christmas music earlier than Thanksgiving.

I completely love this time of yr. I’ve Hallmark Christmas motion pictures on on a regular basis, Christmas music on the automobile radio as we drive, and I’m itching to get the Christmas tree up (although I maintain off on all the different decorations till the day after Thanksgiving).

And I love my seasonal meals – gingerbread, eggnog, peppermint, and all of these different beautiful festive flavors are simply so nostalgic for me.

So, I’m at all times making an attempt to construct vacation favorites into our wholesome regular!

Breakfast is the one meal I meal prep each single week as a result of I’m so not a morning particular person, however I really like a scorching, hearty breakfast (you possibly can learn extra about how I meal prep for weight reduction right here), so I made a decision so as to add a festive aptitude to baked oatmeal this yr.

I take advantage of molasses as a substitute of sugar or brown sugar for sweetness on this recipe and, paired with the ginger, cloves, and cinnamon, it brings all the gingerbread magic to the dish.

How To Make Gingerbread Baked Oatmeal

Collect your whole components collectively. The molasses I used is “full taste.” Blackstrap molasses is the most effective type to make use of for this recipe to provide the most gingerbread taste, however they didn’t carry it in my grocery retailer, and the complete taste labored effectively.

I wouldn’t advocate utilizing “delicate taste,” although!

First, combine collectively your dry components.

In a separate bowl, whisk collectively your whole moist components.

*Straightforward cooking tip – if you happen to spray your measuring cup with cooking spray earlier than measuring your molasses (or different sticky components like honey), it comes out a lot simpler!

Now pour your moist components into your dry components and blend to mix.

Pour all of it right into a greased 8×8 glass pan and bake at 350 for 35 minutes, till the oatmeal is ready.

When the oatmeal is ready, take it out of the oven and funky for about 5 minutes earlier than serving.

What To Eat With Baked Oatmeal

I eat fruit with breakfast nearly each single morning and winter fruits like pears, clementines, and grapes go nice with this gingerbread baked oatmeal!

As a result of high-protein breakfasts are such an enormous a part of my 100-pound weight reduction upkeep, I wish to serve this baked oatmeal with complete meals with a lot of protein like:

You’ll be able to even add a protein choice into the baked oatmeal itself earlier than baking like:

• a scoop of vanilla protein powder
• a tablespoon of chia or hemp seeds

*Observe that if you happen to do add these choices, you’ll additionally want so as to add extra milk to the baked oatmeal.

How you can Make Baked Oatmeal Forward of Time

Meal Prep Breakfasts

My favourite manner to do that is baking the whole recipe, then cooling them utterly earlier than packing up their particular person containers.

I reheat every serving within the microwave for about 1 1/2 minutes for wholesome breakfast meal prep.

If you wish to reheat the whole pan, cowl it with foil and bake at 350 for 10 minutes.

Can You Freeze This?

You’ll be able to completely freeze this baked oatmeal if you happen to’d like!

Simply bake as directed, cool utterly, then cowl it tightly. You’ll be able to freeze the whole casserole pan or particular person items.

You’ll be able to freeze it for as much as 3 months.

If you end up prepared to make use of it, thaw it within the fridge, then reheat utilizing the directions above.

Can You Double The Recipe?

Completely! You’ll be able to double the recipe and use a 9×13-inch pan as a substitute of an 8×8.

You will want so as to add at the very least 10 minutes to the baking time for the oatmeal to set. Watch it rigorously and if it begins browning an excessive amount of, cowl with foil till the oatmeal is absolutely baked.

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