These yummy baked oatmeal cups are in the same family as banana oat cookies and breakfast bars. The difference between these and these muffins is only that they are plant-based version, using flax seeds and more peanut butter instead of egg, which makes them a little denser. These refrigerate and freeze well, and are excellent for travel or on-the-go breakfast. Suitable for a weight loss breakfast!
Servings: 1
Ingredients*
Oatmeal Cups
- 1/4 cup rolled oats, dry 1 oz
- 2 Tbsp nut or seed butter 1 oz
- 1 banana, mashed 3 oz
- 1 Tbsp ground flax seeds
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp good quality sea salt
Topping
- 1/3 cup greek yogurt or other thick yogurt (I use plant-based coyo) 3 oz
- 3 oz fresh fruit
Suggested Equipment*
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Mash all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
- Lightly grease muffin tins or use silicone baking liners. Fill 2 muffin tins.
- Bake 20-25 minutes, or until golden brown.
- Be sure to let these cool and set for at least 20 minutes. If you break into them too early, they will be gooey (but still yummy).
- Top with 3 oz yogurt or 2/3 oz additional nut butter and fresh fruit.
Notes
- Feel free to scale this recipe up to batch prep. These refrigerate and freeze well, and are excellent for travel or on-the-go breakfast.
- To make this breakfast gluten-free, be sure to use certified gluten-free oats. Oats are a naturally gluten-free grain, but are often processed with products containing gluten and this contamination can be enough to trigger an immune response in those with high gluten sensitivity or celiac disease.
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Those are gorgeous!
Hi, I don’t care for Greek yogurt. Could you whip egg whites instead of the yogurt like whipped cream without sugar?
Hmm, experiment to your heart’s content Stacey, personally I think that sounds really strange. Also, I don’t know if it’s ok to eat raw egg whites. Why don’t you just use whatever yogurt you do like? Or you could eat these with nut butter on them, I often do that, or just plain with fruit.
Hi Katie! Can’t wait to try this out. Do the flax seeds count as a protein?
Yep, if you’re counting for BLE then you could count them as protein. I never do, because it barely weighs anything, but feel free to subtract it from your protein serving if you wish. Hope you enjoy them!
Hi Katie –
Do these have to be refrigerated? Was thinking about pre-baking and taking them as a BLE breakfast for a 5 day backpacking trip.
They should be fine! I do that all the time but I actually prefer the oatmeal breakfast cookies to the oatmeal cups. They have come with me on almost every camping trip and I never refrigerate them. 5 days might be a little long though, I usually don’t go more than 3. For the last couple of days I might go with regular oatmeal, nuts and dried fruit.