Bananas Foster Baked Oatmeal
Bananas Foster Baked Oatmeal is a hearty, simple breakfast for a crowd! Flavors of brown sugar and bananas (with an optional splash of rum) make this baked oatmeal take just like the classic dessert, Bananas Foster.
Are big weekend breakfasts a tradition for you? Before we had Eli, we’d crawl out of bed around 10am and go to a diner in our neighborhood. Sometimes, we’d meet friends for a mimosa brunch. Now that we have a kiddo, breakfast like this baked oatmeal is almost always at home because he wakes up starving! I typically get him downstairs in the kitchen for a quick snack, like an apple, while I get the oven on and get things going.
This past weekend, I tried baked oatmeal for the first time. I’ve bookmarked a TON of different baked oatmeal recipes, but have never taken the leap. I looked through all of them (and the comments, because those are always full of good suggestions) and created this Bananas Foster Baked Oatmeal recipe. If you love oatmeal, granola bars and the traditional Bananas Foster dessert, I would bet that you’ll love this!
You’ll start with a few dry ingredients, mainly oats and brown sugar. I always love a good reason to use my canister of rolled oats. The dry mixture is then soaked in a milk and egg solution, then baked. I made this baked oatmeal bananas foster flavor by coating diced bananas in melted butter and brown sugar, then incorporating the coated bananas into the oats mixture.
These oats will seem a little soupy when you put them into the 9×13” pan, but have no fear! The oats absorb the liquid and fluff up. I find this dish really hard to explain as the top stays a bit crunchy, but the bottom will be moist and dense, kind of like an oatmeal cookie! SO good and tons of flavor, I’d gladly eat it for dessert anyday!
If you love this recipe, I bet you’d also like my Peanut Butter and Honey Oatmeal Bites (no bake!) and these Breakfast Bread Pudding Muffins (made with torn croissants!)
Ingredients
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
For the bananas foster mix in
- 1 cup diced bananas
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp melted butter
- splash of rum optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients (oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, salt). Stir to combine, chopping up any lumps of brown sugar.
- Beat in milk, eggs, melted butter and vanilla.
- Spread into well greased 9x13 inch pan.
- In a small bowl, mix together bananas foster mix in ingredients (diced bananas, brown sugar, melted butter, rum).
- Spoon bananas foster mixture over oatmeal mixture.
- Bake for 40 minutes. Allow to cool for a few minutes before slicing.
Notes
- Wonderful hot or cold.
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Added more bananas and some chopped pecans. Very good.
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I’m late to the punch, but I made this several days ago and have been warming up a piece every morning for breakfast. For anyone wondering about meal prepping, this is working out well. It’s delicious, thanks for the recipe!
Fantastic!!!! Thank you for letting me know, Erin!
I’ve made thus half s dozen times, and keep coming back to it. My problem now is that I ran out of rolled oats…. any thoughts on what might happen if I use quick oats? Will I need to change anything?
Thanks!
That is so great, Rachael! Thanks for letting me know! I think quick oats will be fine, but might want to reduce the cook time just a smidge? I wouldn’t think it’d be mushy and overcooked in a serious way, but I would watch it pretty close the first time!
I love baked oatmeal! Adding rum sounds like a super fun addition.
This looks great. I like the combination of oats and brown sugar, and the bananas sound good too.
Thanks Mom!
This is the way to do oatmeal. I am a much bigger fan of baked oatmeal.
I’ve never been a big oatmeal fan, but baked oatmeal is the best. Love the flavors in this version!
I love oatmeal recipes
I am seeing baked oatmeal everywhere! It’s a sign I need to make them!
Bananas Foster is one of my faves, and now I can have it in oatmeal form? Like, healthy and stuff!? Genius!!
I love making baked oatmeal, such an easy and hearty breakfast! I’m LOVING this version!
I want so bad to like sweet oatmeal but the only way I’ve ever been able to eat it is with salt, butter, and cheese. Grits have ruined me for life haha. I think the denser texture from a baked oatmeal might bring me over, though. Thanks for the recipe!