This chocolate banana baked oatmeal is filled with complete grains, semi-sweet chocolate, and naturally — bananas! It’s the right candy breakfast recipe to serve a crowd or meal prep for straightforward breakfasts all through the week.
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Lee and Linley postpartum meal prepped a number of batches of our baked oatmeal for me after I had my child, and it was such a lifesaver in these first few months. Not solely is that this chocolate banana baked oatmeal completely delish, it’s filled with complete grains and wholesome fat, which make for an ideal breakfast or snack.
You’d discover me consuming a slice of this baked oatmeal with a cup of espresso within the morning, and even throughout these middle-of-the-night nursing classes. Bonus — it tastes like a brownie.
Why you’ll love this chocolate baked oatmeal!
Wholesome breakfast: You get a serving of fruit, complete grains, and wholesome fat on this recipe.
Meal-prep or serve a crowd: Make a batch or two of this baked oatmeal and freeze some for later or serve a big group at one time.
Child pleasant: This baked oatmeal tastes like a brownie, with out being too candy and is kid-approved!
What You Want for Chocolate Banana Baked Oatmeal
- Banana: we love utilizing mashed banana in our baked oatmeal so as to add each moisture and taste.
- Chocolate: we’re utilizing a mix of cocoa powder and semi-sweet chocolate chips to make this recipe additional chocolate-y.
- Eggs: we’ve got not examined this baked oatmeal with a flax egg.
- Rolled oats: can’t have baked oatmeal with out oats! We’re utilizing rolled oats for this recipe, however quaint oats can be used. Use licensed GF oats to maintain this recipe gluten free.
- Maple & vanilla extract: all you want is a contact of sweetness from maple and vanilla extract for this chocolate banana baked oatmeal. The pure sweetness from each the chocolate and the banana add a lot!
- Unsweetened almond milk: be at liberty to substitute for any dairy free milk if you happen to want.
High Suggestions
Retailer within the fridge or freezer: If you happen to retailer your baked oatmeal within the fridge in an hermetic container, it ought to final wherever from 3-5 days. When you can depart it out on the counter, it’ll final for much longer within the fridge or freezer. You can even freeze baked oatmeal for as much as 3 months.
Most oats will work: You need to use each rolled oats, quaint oats and fast cooking oats in most baked oatmeal recipes, together with this one. We don’t suggest utilizing metal lower oats.
Amp up the protein: This can be a nice recipe so as to add protein powder to. Merely, substitute in ¼ cup of chocolate protein powder for ¼ cup of the cocoa powder.
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Storage
Retailer your chocolate banana baked oatmeal within the fridge for as much as 5 days. When you can depart it out in a single day, it’ll final for much longer within the fridge.
To freeze baked oatmeal, let it cool utterly. Then tightly wrap each bit with a bit of tin foil and take away as a lot air as doable. Freeze for as much as 3 months.
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Serving Ideas
Serve this baked oatmeal topped with recent bananas, chocolate chips and a drizzle of peanut butter.
If you happen to’re trying to spherical out this breakfast with some sides, we suggest a cup of pour over espresso, our sunny aspect up eggs and a slice of crispy bacon 😀
Images: images taken on this submit are by Erin from The Picket Skillet.
