Fruity Baked Breakfast Oatmeal

You can make this oatmeal the night before and let it sit in the refrigerator until you bake it in the morning, or you can make it, bake it, and serve it right away.

Good cooks know the word: Grease – to put butter, fat, oil or non-stick cooking spray on a pan to prevent cooked food from sticking. When you grease a pan, the word is a verb. When people call fats and oils by the name grease, the word is a noun. Mechanics also use a type of grease to fix cars, but that is a different kind of grease that we will never use in cooking!

INGREDIENTS:

1½ cups old-fashioned oats

1/4 cup brown sugar

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup dried cranberries (or other fruit that you like)

1/2 cup sliced almonds

1¼ cups milk

1/4 cup maple syrup

1 egg, beaten

2 Tablespoons of butter, melted

½ teaspoon vanilla

TOOLS:

One large mixing bowl

One medium mixing bowl

Dry measuring cups

Measuring spoons

Mixing spoon

Liquid measuring cup

Whisk

2-quart baking dish

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Grease the baking dish.
  3. In the large bowl, combine the oatmeal, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, cranberries and almonds. These are your dry ingredients.
These are the ingredients for Fruity Baked Breakfast Oatmeal.
These are the dry ingredients for Fruity Baked Breakfast Oatmeal.
 These are the mixed dry ingredients for Fruity Baked Breakfast Oatmeal.

4. Next, whisk together the milk, syrup, egg, butter, and vanilla in the medium bowl. These are your wet ingredients.

These are the wet ingredients for Fruity Baked Breakfast Oatmeal.
These are the mixed wet ingredients for Fruity Baked Breakfast Oatmeal.

5. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir.

6. Finally, pour the mixture into the baking dish.

7. Bake 20-25 minutes. Serves 4.

This is Fruity Baked Breakfast Oatmeal.
I know there is some Fruity Baked Breakfast Oatmeal missing, but the cinnamon smelled so good that i couldn’t resist!