I’ve received a model new, enjoyable, festive breakfast recipe to heat your private home this vacation season. We’re on a little bit of a gingerbread kick right here at AK, and I understand how a lot you all LOVE baked oatmeal and oatmeal cups (particularly this time of yr).
These simple gingerbread oatmeal cups are baked up with warming spices and sweetness from just a little blackstrap molasses and pure maple syrup. You understand I needed to jazz them up a bit, too, so I blended juicy chunks of pears proper into the cups and topped them with the fantastic salted brown butter glaze that I can’t cease including to baked items.
They’re actually the right vacation brunch recipe or only a cozy, nourishing breakfast to make throughout the week. Freezer-friendly, and a assured hit with the kiddos!
Substances in these gingerbread oatmeal cups
These simple oatmeal cups have just a few key substances that make them completely candy and spiced:
- Butter: we’re browning that butter, after all! It provides moisture and comfy, wealthy taste to the oatmeal cups. You’ll reserve just a little for the icing as nicely.
- Eggs: you’ll want 2 eggs to assist the oatmeal cups baked up correctly.
- Sweetener: we’re sweetening these oatmeal cups with pure maple syrup and blackstrap molasses. The molasses is what provides them that true gingerbread taste!
- Milk: be happy to make use of any milk you’d wish to maintain the oatmeal cups moist. I like to make use of unsweetened almond milk.
- Oats: the important thing to oatmeal cups is (after all) quaint rolled oats. Use gluten-free rolled oats to maintain them gluten-free.
- Spices: we’re packing these cups with warming spices like floor ginger, cinnamon, and allspice.
- Baking staples: don’t neglect the salt, baking powder, and vanilla extract.
- For the glaze: I’ve been including this unbelievable glaze to a number of desserts, and it takes these oatmeal cups to the subsequent degree. You’ll use reserved brown butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk.
- Combine-ins: I really like including a chopped pear or apple for much more seasonal taste!
Molasses = the important thing to gingerbread
Lots of people ask if they will skip the molasses in gingerbread-flavored recipes, and the reply isn’t any! Not solely does molasses present scrumptious sweetness to those oatmeal cups, however 1 tablespoon of it has 20% of your each day iron wants.
Can I make them dairy-free or vegan?
- To make dairy-free: you should utilize vegan butter or melted coconut oil as an alternative of actual butter. Nevertheless, don’t attempt ‘browning’ both of these choices, because it is not going to work. For the glaze, I like to recommend utilizing ¾ cup powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon dairy-free milk and ¼ teaspoon vanilla then spooning over the cups.
- To make vegan: I haven’t tried utilizing flax eggs on this recipe however let me know in the event you do! Learn to make flax eggs with this tutorial.
Can I take advantage of metal minimize or fast oats?
I might not suggest utilizing metal minimize or fast oats in these gingerbread baked oatmeal cups as the feel will probably be a lot completely different. Rolled oats maintain the oatmeal cups mild and fluffy, whereas metal minimize oats will doubtless give them a gritty texture.
Learn how to brown butter
The brown butter provides such an unbelievable taste to the gingerbread oatmeal cups themselves AND to the glaze. It’s simpler to make than you suppose! Get all of my ideas and methods for browning butter in this submit and prepare so as to add it to actually all the pieces.
Sure, you may make common baked oatmeal
Not into oatmeal cups or muffins? Be at liberty to make use of this recipe to make common gingerbread baked oatmeal:
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Preheat the oven to 350 levels F. Grease a 9×9 inch pan with oil or nonstick cooking spray and set it apart.
- Make the oatmeal “batter” as directed, and pour it into your ready baking pan.
- Bake it up for 35-45 minutes till the middle is ready. Let the baked oatmeal cool earlier than slicing and having fun with!
Learn how to retailer these gingerbread baked oatmeal cups
- To retailer: you may make these oatmeal cups forward of time and maintain them in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as every week. As soon as able to eat, simply reheat them within the microwave for 20-30 seconds.
- To freeze: merely enable them to chill fully after baking, then place them in an hermetic container or reusable bag resembling these and freeze for as much as 3 months. As soon as able to eat, you possibly can microwave them for 45 seconds-1 minute or till heat.
Extra oatmeal recipes
Get all of my oatmeal recipes right here!
I hope you like these gingerbread oatmeal cups! When you make them, you should definitely depart a remark and a ranking so I understand how you favored them. Take pleasure in, xo!
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Gingerbread Baked Oatmeal Cups with Salted Brown Butter Glaze
Cozy gingerbread oatmeal cups baked with loads of spices, candy molasses, and wealthy brown butter. High these festive gingerbread baked oatmeal cups with a straightforward, scrumptious salted brown butter glaze for the final word vacation breakfast kiddos will love!
Substances
- Moist substances:
- 4 tablespoons (57g) salted butter
- 2 giant eggs, at room temperature
- ¼ cup (78g) pure maple syrup
- 3 tablespoons blackstrap molasses
- 1 ¾ cups (420g) unsweetened almond milk (or any milk of alternative)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Dry substances:
- 2 ½ cups (225g) quaint rolled oats
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 ½ teaspoons floor ginger
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon allspice
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- Optionally available mix-ins:
- 1 medium ripe bartlett pear (or apple), diced (about 3/4 cup diced pears)
- For the brown butter glaze:
- 1 tablespoon reserved brown butter (from above)
- ½ cup (52g) powdered sugar
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-2 teaspoons milk of alternative, to skinny glaze
- Flaky sea salt, for sprinkling
Directions
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Preheat the oven to 350 levels F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with muffin liners after which spray generously with nonstick cooking spray.
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First, brown your butter: add butter to a small saucepan and place over medium warmth. As soon as melted, the butter will start to crackle, after which finally foam. This can take a couple of minutes. Be sure you whisk continuously throughout this course of. After a few minutes, the butter will start to brown and switch a pleasant golden amber coloration on the underside of the saucepan. Proceed to whisk and take away from warmth as quickly because the butter begins to brown and provides off a nutty aroma. Put aside to chill for five minutes.
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Take away 1 tablespoon of the brown butter from the pan and switch to a small bowl. We’ll use this later for the glaze.
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In a big bowl, whisk collectively the eggs, pure maple syrup, molasses, almond milk and vanilla extract.
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Add the dry substances to the bowl with the moist substances: oats, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, allspice and salt. Combine till mixed, then stir in diced pears (if utilizing) and the remaining 3 tablespoons of brown butter that has barely cooled within the pan.
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Evenly divide the combination into the ready muffin cups. Bake till the perimeters are barely golden brown and the middle is ready, 20 to 25 minutes. Take away from the oven, enable to chill for at the least 10 minutes.
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Make the brown butter glaze: Within the bowl with the 1 tablespoon of reserved brown butter (be sure that it’s nonetheless liquid and hasn’t solidified however whether it is stable simply heat within the microwave for 10 seconds or so), add the powdered sugar, vanilla extract and ½ teaspoon milk and stir till nicely mixed. If mandatory, add further milk, ½ teaspoon at a time, to skinny out the glaze so you possibly can drizzle it over the oatmeal cups. Drizzle backwards and forwards over the muffin cups, then sprinkle with flaky sea salt. Take pleasure in with a cup of espresso!
Recipe Notes
To make gluten-free: Be sure you use gluten free rolled oats if you would like to make this recipe gluten free.
See the complete submit for ideas, methods & freezing directions!
Diet
Serving: 1oatmeal cupEnergy: 195calCarbohydrates: 30gProtein: 4.1gFats: 6.4gSaturated Fats: 2.9gFiber: 2.7gSugar: 13.6g
Recipe by: Monique Volz // Bold Kitchen | Pictures by: Eat Love Eats