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Easy Baked Oatmeal Cups

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These Easy Baked Oatmeal Cups make for a quick and easy, family friendly, breakfast or snack recipe!  These oatmeal cups can be topped with berries, sugar free chocolate chips, or festive sprinkles!

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Additional Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 large ripe banana, mashed or 1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/3 cup American Dream Nut Butter or any low point peanut butter or 1/3 cup peanut butter powder mixed with 1 Tbsp water
  • 1/3 cup zero point brown sugar sweetener – I use Lakanto Golden Monkfruit Sweetener
  • 1 and 1/4 cups unsweetened almond milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 cups old fashioned oats- not quick oats. I like to use Trader Joe’s Old Fashioned Toasted Oats. You can use gluten-free oats, if desired.
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 Tbsp light butter, melted

Optional Toppings or Mix-in’s

  • Blueberries
  • Raspberries
  • Strawberries, chopped
  • Apples, chopped
  • Sprinkles
  • Sugar Free Chocolate Chips- ChocZero or Lily’s
  • Sugar Free Peanut Butter Chocolate Chips- ChocZero

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. 
  2. Spray a 12-cup muffin tin with non stick cooking spray and set it aside
  3. In a large mixing bowl combine, unsweetened applesauce or mashed banana, eggs, peanut butter, brown sugar sweetener, unsweetened almond milk, and vanilla. Mix until combined.
  4. In a separate mixing bowl combine oats, baking powder, and cinnamon. 
  5. Gradually add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until JUST combined.   
  6. Add in the 1 Tbsp melted butter at the end and mix until combined. 
  7. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.  Tip: Be sure the liquid is evenly distributed between the muffins. Top with your favorite toppings such as; berries or sugar free chocolate chips 
  8. Bake for 20 minutes or until the cups are set and starting to turn golden brown on the tops.
  9. Let them cool for at least 5 minutes in the pan before removing them from the muffin tin. 
  10. Store leftovers in the refrigerator for up to a week or freeze for up to 3 months.

Makes 12 oatmeal cups

1 Point® per oatmeal cup

* Point Values do not include the optional toppings or mix-in’s.

Notes

The Lakanto Monkfruit Sweetener also has a 1:1 ratio to real sugar. If you use a different sugar substitute you will want to use the equivalent to real sugar that is recommended on back of the sugar substitute package.

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 12

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 138Total Fat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 31mgSodium: 71mgCarbohydrates: 24gNet Carbohydrates: 21gFiber: 3gSugar: 2gProtein: 5g

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