5-Ingredient Baked Oatmeal Cups

These easy baked oatmeal cups are filled with yogurt and berries, which make the most delicious breakfast. They are full of fibre, meaning that they will keep you full through the day until you are ready for lunch. They make an excellent snack as well when you need something filling in the afternoon to get you through the rest of the day.

To make these baked oatmeal cups, you first mix oats with peanut butter and honey before pressing them into muffin cups and baking them in the oven. Then, they get filled with vanilla yogurt and berries before being served.

What are Baked Oatmeal Cups?

These baked oatmeal cups are basically pastry shells made of oats that are filled with yogurt and fresh berries. The oats include peanut butter and honey to bind them and add extra fibre, flavour, and nutrition. While this recipe includes vanilla yogurt and fresh berries, you could use whichever flavour of yogurt and fruit that you like.

Pro Tips

• If you don’t love peanut butter or have an allergy to peanuts, you could use another type of nut butter or seed butter instead.
• Rather than making full-sized oatmeal cups, you could make mini ones in a mini muffin tin instead.
• Make sure you grease the muffin tin to ensure that you can easily remove the oatmeal cups once they are baked.
• To make these oatmeal cups suitable for a dairy-free or vegan diet, you could easily replace the vanilla yogurt with coconut yogurt instead.
• For added nutrition, you could sprinkle some chia seeds or flax seeds on top of the berries and yogurt before serving.

What to Serve with Baked Oatmeal Cups?

These baked oatmeal cups can be served as a snack on their own or for breakfast with coffee. However, if you would like to expand your breakfast, you could also serve them with other breakfast fare such as bacon, eggs, and fresh fruit.

Can I Make Baked Oatmeal Cups Nut-Free?

Yes, if someone you plan to serve these to can’t have peanut butter or other nut butters, you could easily replace it with sunflower seed butter instead. Alternatively, you can use almond butter if that is more suitable for you and your family.

What Type of Oats Should I Use?

Large flake oats or rolled oats are the best options as they will give the cups the best texture.

Can I Use Another Type of Yogurt?

Yes, if you have other types of yogurt in your kitchen, you could feel free to use that instead. Any type of flavoured yogurt or plain yogurt will be delicious in the cups. If you only have plain yogurt but would like the oatmeal cups to have a vanilla flavour, you could whisk some vanilla extract into the yogurt before you fill the cups as well.

How to Store Baked Oatmeal Cups

Storing these oatmeal cups with the yogurt may make the cups soggy. For that reason, it is best to store the oatmeal cups separately in a sealed container and assemble them when you are ready to serve them.

How to Make Baked Oatmeal Cups

Preheat the oven to 180 C/350 F. In a large bowl, stir the oats with the peanut butter and honey until combined. Scoop the mixture into 6 greased muffin cups.

Using the end of a rolling pin, press the oat mixture so it goes up the sides of the muffin cups to form cups. Bake them for 12 to 15 minutes. Allow them to cool before removing them from the pan.

Fill the cups with the yogurt and top it with the berries.

Serve immediately!