This Refined Sugar-Free Baked Oatmeal is a winner sweetened with coconut sugar and applesauce which makes it moist and nutritious!
This recipe originally posted Oct. 19, 2011 and was my very first recipe to be published on this blog! Today it's been updated with new pics and some revisions, only slightly as the original is still the best! Because of this recipe I then created the recipe that took my blog global and went viral early on and which is still my highest traffic source to this day, published back in Feb. of 2012, Personalized Baked oatmeal cups!
The original recipes adds 1 cup of blueberries, but this time I just used bananas, so it's a Banana Baked Oatmeal. You can certainly add in whatever fruit you love, peaches, strawberries, raspberries, just be sure to drain after washing or thaw and drain if using frozen.
Seen here topped with some Greek yogurt and a sprinkle of cinnamon!
And now I am revealing the very old pic I decided to keep just to encourage you if you've just started blogging. Taking pics daily makes a big difference and eventually it all comes together for a great drool worthy photo!
OLD PIC BELOW!!
New And Improved Baked Oatmeal!
It is Better than EVER!
This recipe came from my sweet friend in PA who says it is an Amish recipe. SO really no idea who originally created it. The problem was it was delicious, but loaded with high calories! It originally had a cup of sugar and almost a cup of oil!!!
I began experimenting with my new favorite sweetener Stevia and came up with an average baked oatmeal, but it wasn't outstanding.
Unfortunately, (MY BAD) some of you may have made the first Baked Oatmeal I posted. I am dreadfully sorry about that since now I have completely perfected this dish and I hope you will forgive me just this once. I Promise to never, ever again put up a recipe I am not completely smitten with!
So on the ingredient sides I switched the oil for applesauce and took out the white refined sugar all together and replaced it with a mix of Stevia in liquid form and Sucanat, another favorite sweetener I adore. You could alos use honey in replace of the sucanat.
You can even reduce the calories more by using water in place of my milk, but I don't think its as delicious.
This recipe is LARGE and great for overnight guests! It can be prepared pretty quickly and even the night before if you so choose.
Hope you enjoy!!
This recipe has become a big hit on Pinterest, but did you know I've adapted the recipe to be completely sugar free as well as portioned controlled?? It's true, check this one out: Personal Sized Baked Oatmeal with Individual Toppings to please the whole family!
UPDATE: APRIL 2014
- I subbed the sucanat for coconut sugar since I had none left, both just as tasty and delicious, kid and hubby approved!
- The original recipe used ½ cup of sucanat , I reduced it to ¼ cup and subbed coconut sugar in its place.
- I left out the blueberries and added another 2 banana's.
- I added flaxseed meal where the original had none, and increased the applesauce to compensate.
- Everything else remained the same!
Refined Sugar-Free Baked Oatmeal Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 5 full droppers of stevia Get off first order using my code: YAJ035
- 1 ¼ cup applesauce unsweetened
- ¼ cup Sucanat* See notes
- 5 cups old fashioned oats
- ¼ cup flaxseed meal
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 3 cups 1 % milk
- 1 cup mashed banana or fruit of choice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix first four liquid ingredients together.
- Add sucanat. flax and oats.
- Mix the salt, baking powder and cinnamon in a bowl then pour into the wet and mix well.
- Add the milk, mix thoroughly.
- Add the fruit gently to the wet mixture.
- Pour the mixture into a 9 x 13 baking dish sprayed with cooking spray.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes.
Notes
Weight Watchers PointsPlus: 6*
Nutrition
Kristin
Hey Brenda,
I'm new to the whole "healthier cooking" lifestyle, but with seven children and growing doctor bills, I figured I had to try something. I have never used any sweetener other than white sugar and brown sugar so I'm going to try to just punt with honey, as I have no other type of sweetener in my home. Do you have other sugar free or gluten free recipes? On a side note any advise you have for making healthier meals would be great!!
Bonnie
I cut this recipe in half since I didn't have enough of the ingredients. I didn't have enough milk, either. I mistakenly bought regular plain yogurt instead of Greek style so I used 1 cup of that and 1/2 cup of almond milk. I also used peaches instead of banana and to my surprise, it turned out great!!
Charlotte Moore
I had to reread the sentence about your first recipe being in Oct.,2011 and the oatmeal cups being in Feb.,2011. I looked and it was 2012. Haha!!! What a big difference in the pic!! I need to try those oatmeal cups.
Brenda
Thanks so much for catching that mistake, I appreciate you!
Connie G
I was so excited to see an oatmeal muffin recipe - until I read the ingredients. Do you have any W/O bananas. I can't find one anywhere. I love oatmeal and nuts, apples and fruit, honey and all things good for me except Bananas. They are just too gross to eat - even when camoflagged in other foods...in fact, banana usually overpowers the other ingredients and all I taste is banana. I wish I liked them it'd make eating healthy easier. But I detest them. Can you help?
Amy
I love this bread! I have found you can put just about ANYTHING in it and its still good! Today, I am baking it with peaches along with the blueberries! Oh, and I add walnuts and pecans too! I also add ground flax seed. After its baked, I freeze it, bag it up in individual servings and its breakfast for me for two weeks! Im so glad I found this!
Leah
Can you replace the milk with yogurt? If so, Would it be the same amount, or more, or less?
Brenda
I've not tried subbing that but it sounds like a good idea!
Tonya
I wish you would combine the recipes that you have listed on those 3 different links. One doesn't say in the instructions when to add the banana, one doesn't even have flaxseed listed in the ingredients....this caused me some trouble making this my first time. Love the recipe and I can see why it's so popular, it would just really help if you listed it a little more clearly on this main "muffin" recipe link!!
Brenda
I'm sorry. It was one of my very first recipes on my blog and so poorly written. I've just fixed it up a bit so hopefully that helps!