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
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
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!
Diane
Delicious! I cut the recipe in half (baked in an 8x8 - still made a huge batch!) and omitted the sweetener. I decided it had enough natural sweeteners with the applesauce, banana and berries. I also used vanilla soy milk rather than regular milk. It was outstanding! I am going to divide the remaining oatmeal and freeze for future breakfasts.
This is the second oatmeal recipe of yours I've tried (crockpot pumpkin oatmeal). Thanks for your delicious and healthy recipes!
Evelyn
I want to add brewers yeast to it. How much do you think i should add?
Latosha
I made this with strawberries instead of blueberries & strawberry flavored applesauce. I also used vanilla almond milk instead. This is soooooo yummy! & It's a hit with my 16 month old. 🙂
Heather
Thank you so much for this recipe! I was working with what I had in the cupboards and ended up substituting a can of pumpkin for applesauce and banana....4 of my 5 family members LOVE it...the 5th one doesn't eat much of anything. Delish!
Angie Brooks
Also, have added flaxseed (3/4 C) one time and wheat bran (1 1/2 C) this time !! Didn't taste the flaxseed one bit and added so much nutrition to it ........... anxious to see if the wheat bran does the same (as far as no taste) 🙂
Angie Brooks
LOVE this recipe !! Have made it several times !! I make it w/ the 1 C honey, I use 1/2 oats and 1/2 steel cut oats and instead of milk, I use unsweetened vanilla almond milk (bet the sweetened version would add a lot more richness) :-p and let is set for 1 hr before baking it !! OMHeavens, it is wonderful !!! The steel cut oats adds so much more texture than straight oats !! Thank you for sharing the awesome recipe !!
Brenda
Those changes sound wonderful, thanks! I'm glad you liked it!
mary
I am new to the whoe sugar-free thing....but I need to buy both a solid and liquid form of Stevia? You stated that the 5-droppers of Stevia and the 1/2 cup Sucanat (but you said you use vanilla cream Stevia?). Just didn't quite understand what I needed. Thanks
Brenda
This was one of my first recipes using stevia and i wasn't sure if my family would like it with just stevia so that is why sucanat is in there. It has a more brown sugar type taste but it certainly can be eliminated and you can just use stevia. One teaspoon of liquid stevia equals a cup of sugar.
Breanna
This recipe is fabulous!! I added some chopped peaches to the fruit mix and topped it with chopped walnuts - YUM!
Jennifer
I don't have any of the sweeteners....yet! Would honey and some brown sugar work till I can get to the store? How about dates? I love you blog....you have inspired me to go sugar free. Now to change my famous chocolate chip cook recipe and make them sugar free:)
Brenda
I'm so glad! Yes you could use honey or brown sugar if you like.
Kelcie
Has anyone made this using egg beaters instead of the eggs? Wondering how it turned out. If you could that would be great to cut back on more calories.
Kerri
Brenda! On emore question - since I have only made the muffin form previously, with the cake type form, if you will, have you ever flipped the pan and taken it out (as you would a cake to ice it and for presentation)? I have now switched to doing two 9x13s so I can carry them in my cupcake/cake carrier, but was thinking if I could flip it, and then top it with fruit, etc, that would make for cute presentation, rather than the metal cake pans. Let me know if you've done this before or not and what you'd recommend greasing the pan with if i were to do it, to be most effective. If you haven't, I'll do a small bit in a mini pan and flip before I tear into the big ones with my attempt! Please let me know if you think it just won't work because of the texture or something, and I'll just leave it in the pans. 🙂
Thanks so much!
Brenda
Hi Kerri,
I have never tried to fill the pan over. Its so very moist and dense not sure how it would work. I think if I were to try it I would insert some parchment paper in the dish then spray or grease it. If you leave enough parchment on the sides you could use it to maybe lift it up and out? Possible but haven't tried it so let me know how it goes!
Kerri
WOW - Amazing!! I added flax seed , and topped one with nuts, but they turned out amazing! Between these and the muffins, I guess the ingredients are just proportioned differently and blueberries added, but it's very moist and turned out great! We're in love. I'm going to try these into muffins next time. Thanks so much!!
Kerri
And one more question - have you tried frozen blueberries? I was thinking they might sink to the bottom, but then the oatmeal is a lot denser than some recipes so I thought I'd ask! Thanks again!!
Brenda
Actually I usually use frozen!! Just let them thaw a bit before adding to batter.
Kerri
I made the oatmeal muffin recipe and it was fabulous! It's definitely one of our favorites now! I use almond milk due to a milk allergy and it was super!
I am bringing breakfast to work on Thursday morning and wanted to make one big oatmeal bake (that will serve more). I have about 20 people and will be serving fruit and milk on the side to pour on top as well. I was thinking of making one 9x13 of this recipe and then two 9" rounds (and maybe doing different additives: blueberries/nuts/craisins).
So I'm wondering - not for this time - but for the future, can you reduce the milk and add water or does it need to be a full substitution? Just wondering...
I'm thinking of taking the milk out, since you noted that option, even though it doesn't taste as good, and then serving it to my daughter and family with almond milk poured over the warm oatmeal bake. Do you think that would make up the difference in taste or would you recommend trying this recipe with the almond milk baked in as a better option?
Sorry for such a huge comment! I love your website! Thanks so much!
Brenda
Using water would be ok, but using the almond milk would be so much better for the creaminess aspect! Thank you for such sweet words! I appreciate it!
Betsy
I made these and they are fantastic. Thank you!
Heather
Thanks again for giving out what looks like an amazing recipe! I am wondering if you can mix this up the evening before and bake in the morning. ? I hope I didn't miss that answer somewhere.
Heather
OOOOh, I did find it....your last statement. Sorry. THANKS! 🙂
Brenda
Hi Heather, I actually haven't tried to mix all ingredients the night before and then bake in the morning. Its a good idea and I don't see why it wouldn't work. Please let me know how it comes out!
Monika
My husband is a type 2 diabetic, is Sucanat safe to use?
Brenda
Sucanat is less refined that white table sugar and is more natural but just like honey is still a form of sugar. You could eliminate it all together and use stevia which is completely natural and sugar free and it may be just enough sweetness. You could skip adding any sweetener in the baking and simply add sweetener of choice after its baked. Hope that helps.
Peggy
I made this recipe in the crock pot. Turned out great!!! I used the fruit I had on hand, and it was the best oatmeal we've had! Thanks! I used Agave Nectar.
Brenda
Fantastic Peggy!
Stefanie
My sweetbread of choice is Tricia so how much of this would I use in place of the droppers of stevia? Sounds yummy 🙂 and I want to make this. Thank you
Stefanie
Sorry the auto correct changed my words. My * sweetner * is *truvia *
Brenda
The five full droppers of Stevia is about a teaspoon. So maybe one packet of Truvia would be enough? It really isn't a very sweet dish, you may have to adjust after you make it once. We like it with the amounts as is, but you may prefer it sweeter. I do not use Truvia so its hard for me to get more specific with you.Hope I helped though!