Baked Oatmeal - Veganized

I have been seeing all these awesome pins for baked oatmeal all over Pinterest, but have not seen many vegan ones.  So I decided to adapt one that looked especially yummy.

 Adapted from original recipe here

I loved the individual serving sizes and using the mini mason jars.  I just love mason jars!

Making the conversions to veganize the recipe was very simple.  I can't wait to make other versions of these, with apples and walnuts or chocolate and peanuts!  The options are limitless!

Fresh Fruit Bottom:

• 2 cups fresh fruit, plus extra for garnish.
  I used a cup of blueberries and 1 cup of peaches and made 3 servings of blueberry and 3 servings of peach.

Dry Ingredients:

• 2 cups old fashioned oats
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tsp. aluminum free baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt

Wet Ingredients:

• 2 cups non dairy milk - I used soy, almond would probably be really yummy too
• 1 1/2 tbsp. melted earth balance or other vegan butter
• 1/2 cup brown rice syrup or agave
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract

Topping:

• 1 cup chopped almonds, walnuts, pecans whatever kind of nuts you fancy... I used almonds
• Vegan sugar for sprinkling on top about 1 tsp on each (you can leave this off and these will be sugar free)

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Using six small (8 oz) jars divide your fruit up among your jars evenly.  
3. Mix all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl and then divide evenly into your jars about 1/3 cup into each.
4. Mix all the wet ingredients together in a bowl and then pour about a 1/2 cup over the oat mixture in each jar letting it seep all down and around the oats and fruit.  
5. Top each jar with a tsp of vegan sugar, chopped nuts and a few pieces of fruit.
6. Place the jars into a baking dish and heat bake for about 30 minutes.

Eat them warm and gooey from the oven or let them cool, put the lids on and refrigerate for later.


These were super easy to make, tasty and make for quick EASY breakfasts.   The kids had some of them for breakfast this morning and loved them and the rest are sitting in the fridge waiting to either be eaten cold or warmed up a bit and thoroughly enjoyed either for after school snacks or breakfast tomorrow.

**TIP** If you are making these to be eaten later in the week as I did under cook them a bit (25 mins) and then when you warm them back up they will be perfect!

To warm them back up you can do: 1 min in the microwave,  or you can put them into an inch or two of boiling water for a couple minutes if you don't do microwaves, or pop em back in the pre-warmed oven for 5 minutes or so

 

Chop fruits

Divide up between your jars

Combine dry ingredients

Layer over fruit

Combine wet ingredients and layer over dry in the jars

Add toppings and place jars in baking dish

Ooey  Gooey Warm Vegan Goodness!!