If you're a follower of my blog, then you know how much I love variety! I love the ability to make multiple options out of ONE meal since picky eaters run ramped in my house. 🙂
Choices make everyone happy. Healthy foods make me happy. Healthy, yummy, make- ahead meals make me even happier. Making a breakfast taste like dessert, now that is beyond amazing. THAT is exactly what happened here! I was just playing around the other day with steel cut oats and the idea to place the fruit at the bottom of the dish just came to be!
This takes a bit more time to make and cook and it's not an on- the- run kind of breakfast like my Personal Sized Baked Oatmeal's or Individual Steel Cut Oat Cups that you can take and go, BUT it is an INCREDIBLE breakfast. One you would want to enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee on the weekend.
This would be a perfect recipe to make for overnight guests since they can choose the fruit of their choice and will LOVE you for it! Eating one of this little fruit "cakes" made me feel like I was away at a Bed and Breakfast for the weekend, which made me relaxed and oh so happy. 🙂
Choose whatever fruit you like!
Cover it with oats! Top with fruit to identify what's under there! 🙂
When its done, flip it over upside down onto a plate! Oh...... yum!
Top with cream or lite coconut milk or even Greek yogurt!
It's like a dessert for breakfast!
* If you have QUICK steel cut oats, check this post for modifications to make this recipe work. * If you want to make this like a dessert, try this recipe: Mini Upside Chocolate Chip Steel Cut Oat "Cakes".
- 1 cup soaked standard steel cut oats*
- 1 banana, mashed
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon [url href="www.iherb.com/p/11070?at=0&rcode=yaj035" target="_blank"]Liquid Stevia, Vanilla Creme[/url]
- ¼ cup milk of choice {I used 1%}
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Fresh or frozen fruit: 2 tablespoons for each serving[ I used frozen blueberries, mango and raspberries}
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Stir the soaked steel cut oats and add the banana, egg, vanilla extract, stevia and milk.
- Mix until incorporated.
- Combine the rest of the ingredients to the mixture.
- Spray 6 ramekins with nonstick cooking spray.
- Place the fruit into the ramekins then evenly distribute the oat mixture on top of each fruit in the dish.
- Add some fruit on top of the oats so you can identify each.
- Bake for 40-45 minutes.
- Let sit for 5 minutes then use a knife to loosen around the edges of the "cake". Carefully with a spoon lift the cake out of the ramekin, flipping it over onto a plate or bowl.
- Top with cream or lite coconut milk or even some Greek yogurt!
Looking for my other oatmeal recipes?
- Personal Sized Baked Oatmeal with Individual Toppings [rolled oats]
- Personalized Baked Steel Cut Oats Cups [quick steel cut oats]
- PB& J Steel Cut Oat Cups [quick steel cut oats]
- Overnight Crock Pot Banana Steel Cut Oats [standard steel cut]
- Overnight Crock Pot Apple Honey Oatmeal [rolled oats]
- Overnight Crock Pot Sugar Free Oatmeal [rolled oats]
- Baked Oatmeal [9 by 13 dish]
- Apple Oatmeal Muffins
- Individual Steel Cut Oat Cups [pre-Soaked, No Sugar]
- Oat & Fruit Breakfast Bars: Nut, Dairy, Flour, Sugar and Egg Free
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.
Deen Morales
how long do you soak the oats for?
Brenda
overnight at least 8 hours.
Kerrieann
How much water do I soak the oats in? And for how long?
Brenda
Just enough to cover them in a bowl.
Melinda Martin
Can I substitute honey for the stevia?
Megan
I was curious if you can freeze and reheat these? Or even just keep in the fridge and reheat?
Brenda
I haven't frozen them since they always eat them up before I can. But I think if you wrapped them well in plastic wrap then in aluminum of a ziploc bag they would be fine. Thaw them the night before you plan to have them in the morning. Reheat in the microwave for about 2-3 minutes or bake on low heat maybe 325, covered with aluminum foil for probably 15-20 minutes.
Martha@ Simple Nourished Living
These look lovely. A fellow oatmeal lover who looks forward to trying these. I've bookmarked them to try soon.