Strawberry Banana Baked Oatmeal (2024)

This extra easy baked oatmeal recipe with fresh strawberries, bananas, and chocolate is one of ourfavorite things to make for breakfast. Make it in the morning or assemble the night before and bake the next day!

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Related: We love these everyday rolled oats.

How to Make Baked Oatmeal

There’s something special about entertaining in the morning — it’s casual, laid back and really can start the day off right. This easy baked oatmeal is where we turn when there are more than the two of us in the house. It’s really flexible. Feel free to play with the add-ins to our recipe. We love adding strawberries, banana and chocolate, but add whatever you love. Or, add that odd amount of nuts, raisins or cranberries left in your pantry from another recipe. It’s up to you! To see how we make regular oatmeal, here’s the oatmeal recipe we follow almost every morning.

If you take a read through the comments below, you’ll see so many who have shared this baked oatmeal recipe with family or friends. Some have even taken it to work.

You can mix all of the ingredients the night before cooking and then bake in the morning. If you do this, place bananas on the bottom of the dish and not on top of the oats since they may brown slightly over night. For another overnight recipe, take a peek at our favorite overnight oats recipe.

Some readers have tried freezing the oatmeal: After mixing everything together, tightly cover the oatmeal or pour into resealable plastic bags and freeze for up to one month. Then, when you want to bake the oatmeal, just remove from freezer, thaw and bake as directed. If you decide to do this, we suggest that you mix the fruit into the oatmeal instead of placing on top to prevent browning – especially the bananas.

You may also like these Easy Homemade Blueberry Muffins from scratch. We make them in one bowl in under 30 minutes.

Recipe Substitutions

This baked oatmeal recipe is easily adapted for dairy-free and egg-free diets. While we call for one egg in the recipe, we have had success removing the egg completely or you can substitute the egg with one flax egg. Another easy substitution is replacing soy, almond or even coconut milk for the milk called for in the original recipe.

You can, of course, change the fruit and chocolate in the recipe, too. To reduce calories or level of sweetness, eliminate chocolate from the recipe all together. You could also substitute blueberries, blackberries or other fruit for the strawberries and banana

Finally, if you wish to reduce the amount of sugar, readers have had success eliminating the sugar all together. You could do this or replace the sugar with honey or agave nectar.

More Easy Breakfast Recipes

• Great for crowds, our Easy Vegetable Frittata might be one of our favoritedishes.
• Here’s another baked oatmeal recipe for you. This one has blackberries and a simple caramel sauce spooned on top.
• If you love scrambled eggs, this is the only way we make scrambled eggs in our house. They are creamy, soft, and delicious.
• A side of bacon is never a bad idea, here’s how we bake bacon in the oven so that it’s crispy and perfectly cooked.
• Another crowd pleaser: Breakfast Enchiladas with Ham and Peppers.

Strawberry Banana Baked Oatmeal

Our extra easy baked oatmeal recipe with fresh strawberries, bananas and chocolate is such a crowd-pleaser. You could make this in the morning or if you’re short on time, prepare it the night before and bake in the morning. There are lots of substitutions you can make, here. A few ideas: replace the milk with soy milk, remove the egg, reduce sugar a little, or change up the fruit, nuts and chocolate to something you love. We talk a bit more about recipe substitutions in the article, but you can also read below in the comments to see what others have done.

Makes approximately 6 servings

Nutrition Per Serving Serving Size 1/6 of the dish / Calories 423 / Total Fat 18.5g / Saturated Fat 8.1g / Cholesterol 54.5mg / Sodium 283.1mg / Carbohydrate 51.2g / Dietary Fiber 5.7g / Total Sugars 27.5g / Protein 12.8g

AUTHOR: Adam and Joanne Gallagher

Recipe updated, originally posted December2011.Since posting this in 2011, we have tweaked the recipe to be more clear and added a quick recipe video.– Adam and Joanne