Healthy Baked Oatmeal Cups

Healthy Baked Oatmeal Cups are a simple, convenient, low sugar breakfast for busy families on the go. They're delicious and kid-approved!

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Why These are the BEST Baked Oatmeal Cups

These healthy baked oatmeal cups are the best:

• All you need is a few ingredients common to most kitchens.
• They're easy to make - all you need is a mixing bowl, spoon, and muffin pan.
• Have fun with your mix-ins! I used drozen blueberries but you can use any frozen fruit of choice. Other mix-ins work, too!

What You'll Need

Ingredients

• Old-fashioned oats (certified gluten-free if you need it)
• Milk of choice
• Eggs
• Applesauce
• Baking powder
• Cinnamon
• Vanilla extract
• Fruit (frozen, fresh, or dried)

Equipment

• Mixing bowl
• Measuring cups and spoons
• Spatula spoon
• Muffin pan

How to Make This Recipe

1. Preheat oven to 375°F and prepare a muffin pan by spraying each tin with nonstick spray.
2. Combine dry ingredients (oats, baking powder, and cinnamon – if using) in a large bowl. Add wet ingredients (milk, honey, eggs, applesauce, vanilla) and stir until combined. Add fruit (or any other mix-ins) and stir to combine.
3. Pour batter into muffin tins and bake for 25-30 minutes.
4. Let cool and enjoy!

Top Tips to Best Make These Baked Oatmeal Muffins

• Use any frozen fruit that's bite-sized or chopped into smaller pieces. Blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and peaches all taste great!
• Fresh fruit chopped into bite-sized pieces works as well (avoid very "wet" fruit, though,
• You can add in anything else you love and have on hand, too - nuts, seeds, dried fruit, even chocolate chips!
• Enjoy them cold, at room temperature, or warm. To warm them, you can reheat in the toaster oven for a couple minutes or in the microwave 10-20 seconds.

How to Store Them

They can be left in an airtight container for 1-2 days at room temperature, in the fridge for a few days, and frozen up to six months.

Serving Suggestions

It totally depends on your hunger level and needs, but you can grab a couple of these oatmeal cups on their own, or pair with a green smoothie, some greek yogurt or cottage cheese, fruit, and/ or hard boiled eggs.

Baked Oatmeal Cups Nutrition

A baked oatmeal cup packs quite the nutrition in a muffin-sized morsel:

• 100 calories
• 2.4g fat
• 3.5g protein
• 16.7g carbohydrate
• 2.3g fiber (10% daily value)
• 95.1mg calcium (10% daily value)

Are they healthy?

These oatmeal cups are full of nutrient-dense foods and can absolutely be part of a balanced, healthy meal or snack.

Know, too, that “healthy” is subjective. The foods that help one maintain their health may or may not work for you - and that’s okay! Honor the body you have. As a registered dietitian nutritionist, I suggest eating a variety of nourishing foods that help you feel good and achieve or maintain your health, balanced with the foods you love. Remember - an election isn’t won with every vote, but the majority. Your health is the same way - the overall dietary pattern is what matters most.

More Healthy Muffin Recipes

Looking for more healthy muffin recipes? Try these:

• Spinach Banana Muffins
• Spinach and Feta Savory Gluten-Free Muffins
• Double Chocolate Banana Muffins
• Healthy Pumpkin Muffins

More Healthy Oat Recipes

• Protein Overnight Oats
• Almond Flour Oatmeal Cookies
• Green Smoothie Oatmeal
• Blueberry Matcha Overnight Oats
• Baked Vanilla Oatmeal Custard

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