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:
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- Grease the baking dish.
- In the large bowl, combine the oatmeal, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, cranberries and almonds. These are your dry ingredients.
4. Next, whisk together the milk, syrup, egg, butter, and vanilla in the medium bowl. These are your wet ingredients.
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.
