Let’s say this together…I love fall & winter food. This oatmeal is the quintessential cold weather breakfast. Make up a big batch of this and you will never need to grab one of those overly sweetened little packets of instant oats again. Besides if you are like me then you want to taste all of the full bodied flavors of the oats, fruit, cinnamon and spice. Not just sugar and quick cooked overly processed oats.
Have you entered my giveaway for a 7 Qt KitchenAid Stand Mixer? Each day you vote for my Thai Spiced French Fries to become the next Alexia Foods flavor you can submit another entry to win.
Lately oatmeal has been in the spotlight over here. My Saffron Pear Baked Oatmeal was such a hit I had to post a follow up recipe. This time the traditional flavors of apples and cinnamon take the stage. Choose your favorite crispy apples. We love Pink Lady’s, Granny Smith, Honey Crisp and Gala.
What are your favorite apples?
Pomegranate seeds are a delight to photograph and to eat. You will be seeing them garnish many recipes over here. They also hold their own in may of my recipes including my Pomegranate Coconut Shake with Cacao Nibs and Coconut Crusted Chicken with Pomegranate Dipping Sauce.
They are also mighty tasty in my Sweet Potato, Bacon and Pomegranate Spinach Salad.
We have been enjoying busy school days and fabulous weekends. We are a family who loves a little chill in the air and we spend plenty of time outdoors. I love this photo of my kids spending a lazy Saturday watching grandma’s iPad in a cozy white bed.
Watching them cuddled up next to each other is priceless.
They love helping choose ingredients for recipes. They more they are involved in the process of making their own food the more likely they are to eat it. Amazing huh!
I always love to style things like oatmeal and more bland colored foods like chili. It is all in the toppings and garnishes. And then the light factor comes into it.
The perfect light makes everything dazzle and shine….
Do not be shy…go ahead and heap on your favorite seasonal fruits, nuts, raisins and such. Pecans, walnuts, slivered almonds, macadamia nuts. They all add healthy fats and some nice crunch. Recently I have been using a lot of my favorite Marcona almonds from Trader Joe’s.
Those almonds are wonderful to top your oats or to munch out of hand.
Ready to bake up some oatmeal? Beware your house will smell heavenly. The other bonus: you will have a healthy breakfast that is ready to grab and go for a few mornings. This is great for mid day snacks too. Remember my 10 Secrets to Skinny post?
This kind of food keeps you well nourished and *happy*
What are your favorite ingredients to add to a steamy bowl of oats? Have you ever tried baked oatmeal?
Baked Oatmeal Recipe Links
- Banana Nut Baked Oatmeal Cooking With My Kid
- Baked Coconut Oatmeal with Pepper Nut Topping MarlaMeridith.com
- Blackberries and Ginger Baked Oatmeal Babble
- Pumpkin Pie Baked Oatmeal MarlaMeridith.com
- Saffron Pear Baked Oatmeal MarlaMeridith.com
- Rhubarb Baked Oatmeal My Kitchen Addiction
This recipe is part of the Food Networks Healthy Eats Challenge along with these other fabulous bloggers:
- Picky Eater Blog: Chocolate Brownie Oatmeal
- MarlaMeridith.com: Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal
- Healthy Eating Starts at Home: Eating Breakfast Daily
- Carlene’s Figments: Bits of Nutrition: Eat Breakfast Daily and Avoid Common Excuses
- Simple Food, Healthy Life: Week 1 Comes to a Close + Healthy Breakfast Recipes
- JBR Nutrition: Be a Breakfast Eater
- Ramblings of a Pittsburgh Dad: Healthy Every Week Challenge, Week 1
- Meghan’s Kitchen: Ham and Cheddar Hash-brown Bake
- Eat. Enjoy. Live: Oat-y Pancakes
- City Life Eats: Breakfast Bias
- Boys ‘n’ Berry: Week 1: Oatmeal
- Netlycka’s Distracting Confusion: Eat Breakfast Every Day
- You Don’t Look Sick: Living With Rheumatoid Arthritis: First Week of Healthy Breakfasts
- Deep Thoughts and Amusing Musings: Food Network’s January Challenge
- Healthy Kitschy Vegan: Peanut Butter & Banana Oat Bran Mess
- An Uneducated Palate: Creamy Chevre, Pistachio & Fig Breakfast Sandwich
- Healthy Plates: Avocado Egg Sandwich
- Essentials of Nutrition: The Most Important Meal of the Day
- Pursuit of Healthiness: Healthy Every Week Challenge, Breakfast Edition
- Chick Bike: January Challenge, Week 1
- Nutritious Daily: Breakfast Every Day
- Cookin’ in my Kitchen: No-Butter Baked Apples
- Hungry Jenny: Breakfast All the Way + an Easy Granola Recipe
- Don’t Be (Too) Timid & Squeamish: Maple Macadamia Nut Butter & Back to School Oatmeal
Giveaway Details
This giveaway is now closed. Thanks for your entries. Congrats to Jacqui #30. Enjoy your Bon Appétit!
Because I love you so and want to see you baking and cooking up all kinds of magic for the holidays I am purchasing a one year subscription to Bon Appétit magazine for one lucky winner. Even if you don’t plan on cooking much the photography in this mag will make you dash to the kitchen…
If you win this and all ready receive this magazine or would prefer to pass it along to a friend or family we can send it to them instead. It would make the perfect holiday gift!
How to Enter
Leave some comments….there are lots of ways you can do this. You have until Sunday, November 13th, 12 midnight PST to enter this giveaway. One winner will be chosen via random.org and will have 3 days to respond or a new winner will be selected. Open to residents of the USA.
To earn entries, leave a separate comment for each of the steps listed below. You can leave one comment (entry) or many comments (entries) The choice is yours. If you don’t leave separate comments for each step, we will not be able to include them.
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I would love to try the No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies recipe. Cookies are big in my house as is the combination of chocolate and Peanut Butter.
I would love to win the subscription because I love cookbook and reading cooking magazines. I do not have a subscription to any but I will look through at the library. I love to find new foods that I can make for my family.
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Lovely! Apples, cinnamon and oatmeal go so well together.
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I love baked oatmeal. I make it a lot around here…so delicious!
I voted for your sweet potato fries!
Marla- those kids are just gorgeous! So are the pictures of this yummy oatmeal, and healthy to boot! Looks like the perfect cold weather breakfast!
Love this giveaway! My friends have this subscription, but I don’t! I have been dying to get it!
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This looks fantastic! I LOVE apples. Have you ever tried cortlands? They’re my absolute favorite.
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Rachel, think I used to have Cortland apples when I was a kid back in NY. I need to find them again .I believe I loved them. I think they are often used in cider too…
So, I shouldn’t mention the 2 pecks of Cortlands occupying my dinning room table? Hmm. 😉
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I voted for your fries!
i always love your baked oatmeal dishes! yum!
I find baked oatmeal so comforting and like how festive you’ve garnished this one.
Thanks Aida! I am all about festive everything this time of year 🙂
Love your baked oatmeal dishes! And this is such a wonderful and generous giveaway, perfect for this time of year.
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I love seasonal cooking, well-tested recipes and great food photography. The Sunflower Seed Butter Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies – Gluten Free & Vegan look amazing
I love apples, cinnamon, and oatmeal together. Might be back from growing up with apple-cinnamon nutrigrain bars and Quaker cinnamon oatmeal but either way I’m definitely making this oatmeal asap!
This looks like the perfect breakfast for a chilly morning. I love that you captured that moment with your children. Moments like that are truly priceless!
This sounds perfect for fall! Oatmeal is just so very comforting. this sound delicious!!
I’d love to win the magazine subscription. Since the hubs and I went on our strict budget I had to let my magazine subscriptions go… It was a sad day 🙁
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I voted for your thai spiced french fries!
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Baked oatmeal with apples sounds delicious. I’ve never actually had baked oatmeal before, must try soon!
Fallon, you so need to try baked oatmeal. Once you do I bet you will be hooked!
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I would love this magazine subscription because Bon Appetit is amazing!! I have only purchased a few of them but I am amazed every time… great recipes and beautiful photography! The family fresh cooking recipe I most want to try at the moment is this cinnamon apple baked oatmeal – looks delicious!
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I shared this giveaway by emailing it to a bunch of my family, friends and coworkers!! Not sure if that is really “creative” but I tried 🙂
Jacqui, creative and fabulous!! Thanks so much 🙂
Baked oatmeal and magazine…talk about cozy and comfort.
Jen, seriously! What I would do to cozy up right now with a bowl of baked oatmeal, a great food magazine. And my laptop 😉
look so good. Just put on my Facebook fan page and pinterest. When will I see you again?
Thanks Alison! I was thinking the same thing today. We need to connect soon to figure out where we will meet up 🙂
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I would love to try out the bacon and cheese stuffed mushrooms. My husband’s favorite food are mushrooms. I’ve love to have a subscription to the magazine cause I believe I can become a better cook 🙂 and would probably love the photos.
I’ve made the Mango Applesauce seeing that my wife is from Cuba and loves mangos. I would enjoy telling my wife that we won a subscription to one of her favorite mags.
Awesome giveaway. Thank you
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I would like to try your baked oatmeal. I’ve never made it with coconut milk but it sounds delicious.
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Beautiful styling, Marla! I absolutely love the endless possibilities there are with oatmeal. Pairing pomegranate seeds and apple would be amazing. Sweet and tart. Yum!
Krista…I am smitten by sweet & tart combos. Thanks for your sweet comment!! xo
I voted for your fries!
i would love this subscriptioin because all my cookie magazine subscriptions have run out and i love the photography in the bon apetite magazines. besides wanting to try this recipe i also now want to give that elk chili a recipe!
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I love Bon Apetit and my subscription just expired this month!! This would be perfect timing for me 🙂 I think this apple cinnamon baked oatmeal and banana nut oatmeal sound delish!
MM rocks the house with pomegranates and so so much more – x
LL you just made my day. No my week 🙂
Yummy yummy. I love oatmeal. I eat it nearly every morning during the work week! Thanks for this recipe idea.
This looks yummy and healthy! My favorite apples are HoneyCrisp! Developed right here at the University of Minnesota!
Really?! Honeycrisp apples were developed there? Had not a clue! Love that kind of info 🙂
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I want this mag b/c I am the only foodie who apparently doesn’t get it yet but have always wanted to subscribe 🙂
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Yum!!!! My favorite apples are braeburn.
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I voted for your thai fries.
I have tried many of your recipies but while we are on the topic one of my favorites were your thai spiced fries. I didn’t get them very crispy but next time Im going to try a coating of potato starch to help. Loved the flavor crispy or not!!
I get that Laura 🙂 I have had crispy and not so crispy ones. Either way the flavor is so good they are gone in minutes!! I hope the starch helps.
I just clicked like on FB and voted for your fries! Love the baked oatmeal! I need to make this, sounds like a comforting dish to have on a cold crappy morning!
Thanks Jennifer! Yes, this oatmeal makes a dreary, dark morning much, much brighter!! xo
Yummy recipe and beautiful photos!
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I love this magazine! I’m going to make this oatmeal tomorrow morning. Can’t wait.
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I’d love this magazine to try new recipes and to look at the beautiful pictures. Your recipe above for baked oatmeal is on my list of recipes to try out. I have never tried baked oatmeal and your pics o it alone make me want to run out and grab all the ingredients to make it!
Thank you for the chance!
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I just voted for your Thai Fries!! But I love your recipes and the photos are divine!
I voted, cannot WAIT to try them when they’re a real flavor! 🙂
Love the classic apple cinnamon combination. The nuts and pomegranate seeds must add some nice crunch! I haven’t baked oatmeal yet, but I’m thinking I need to try it. Sounds like the perfect breakfast for company over the holidays.
Great post Marla!!
You definitely know how to spice up oatmeal and you are right – it is such a wonderful start to the day and if you do it ahead, its so easy! I have a bowl just about every morning for breakfast … amazing how it really fuels your morning!!
Beautiful photos too… not easy with something as monochromatic as oatmeal!
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I’d love the magazine because one of my former roommates subscribed and I found so many great recipes out of it! Can’t wait until Thanksgiving because I want to try your Monte Cristo grilled cheese sandwich with all of the leftovers!
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Would love a subscription to Bon Appetit! I am constantly thinking of new recipes and food combinations. This publication is not only great for recipes but new innovative products; it also takes you to wonderful food places around the world. Thank you for the opportunity!
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Love this recipe. It looks so fantastic. Come visit. We have cranberry couscous on the menu
ooo that oatmeal looks really good. Really warm! my favororite thing for oatmeal would have to be brown sugar.
I did Vote for you Thai Spiced French Fries to become the new Alexia Foods flavor, today 🙂
Mmm, this looks beautiful! I love the addition of pomegranate seeds 🙂
I voted for your fries — and I really do hope you win so that I can buy them and enjoy!!
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I voted for your french fry flavor! I so hope they win too so I can buy ’em 🙂
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I would love to win this magazine because I am in love with reading recipes and looking at food photography! Plus, one can never have too many recipes 🙂 And as for a recipe of yours I would love to try, I’d love to try any of your pancake or muffin recipes because I’m pretty much CrAzy! about both! 🙂
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I’m following you on twitter and i tweeted this, too. What a great recipe and a fabulous giveaway, too!
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Voted for your fries! Hope you win! So far you’re the leader!
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I make a recipe very similar to this, but with egg whites and it’s one of our favorites! Love baked oatmeal dishes, so comforting.
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I was just thinking oatmeal today. Looks delicious! I m going to make thus for sure. Xxoo
Oh I’ve never had a food magazine subscription! I would love that!
Yummy recipe, can’t wait to try it! Vited for your flavor, would loove to try it! Hope you win!!!!
Awesome looking recipe. Will definitely make this.
Marla, I don’t think I’ve ever seen more beautiful oatmeal! You’re right; it’s all about the garnishes…and you did it fabulously 🙂 Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend~
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I voted for your tasty fries!
Wow, your baked oatmeal looks wonderful. What a tasty and healthy treat!
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Voted for your fries recipe again…that’s such a wonderful flavor in fries. 🙂 And I’m glad you’re in the lead.
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I would love to have the magazine to broaden my culinary horizons 🙂 I usually cook the same things, but I can’t have wheat anymore, so your blog is wonderful! Thanks!
yours is the second reference to couch oatmeal i have seen this week – going to have to check them out …..
I love baked oatmeal…I made some this morning! I’d love to try your recipe though- it sounds delicious. 🙂
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i would want to try this recipe but with bananas instead of apples! i love oatmeal for breakfast before school!
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Love the addition of pomegranates – and your pix are gorgeous! I want a big bowl of this for bfast
Baked oatmeal is the only way I like to eat oatmeal and this version not only sounds wonderful, but is so pretty to look at. Love the photo of your sweet kids.
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I’d love to have a Bon Appetit magazine subscription! They have some of the nicest recipes and advice~
I’ve tried this recipe! It was delish 🙂
oh my goodness this looks delicious. Beautiful photos!
I really need to get on the baked oatmeal train — I keep seeing so many good recipes for it!
This looks delicious! Always looking for a new way to spice up oatmeal!
New follower to your site – I’m curios of 2 things.
1. Does the topping get added after its cooked or before you put it in the oven?
2. Do you have an example of a menu you might do for a week? I’m trying to figure out if something like this is a “treat” or an everyday breakfast.
Thanks!
Hi Esther, go ahead and add the toppings after. We enjoy that oatmeal as a healthy breakfast. Good for snacks too – maybe just have a smaller portion for a snack.
As far as menus go I have 30 days of Project LunchBox that might help you out. Here is the link to that:
https://192.163.193.237/~marlamer/2012/03/28/project-lunch-box-30-days-of-healthy-meals/
Oh my, this is so good! I LOVE baked oatmeal and have been making it different ways for a few years now, but this recipe is just so tasty. I lOVE the addition of coconut milk it adds a nice creaminess. YUM 🙂
Thanks so much Nicole!! Can’t get enough oatmeal over here 🙂
I have to tell you that i have never commented on someone’s food picture before, but I saw this on pinterest and just about started to drool. I love the picture and it sounds delicious, so I will definitely make this soon. Thank you.
Hi Marla, I love your blog, your recipes, and your philosophy on healthy living. Just made this recipe for my family’s Saturday morning breakfast and we all LOVED it. We topped it with pomegranate seeds.
Hi Kim!! Thanks so much for your sweet comment and I am THRILLED that you all enjoyed my oatmeal recipe ~ the pomegranate seeds are a great idea!
I would like to try this in a single-size portion.. My family hates oatmeal and I’m not really looking forward to eating the same 8 days in a row 😉 I wanted to divide the ingredients by 8, but is it possible to leave out the coconut milk (which won’t be that much anymore) and use milk instead?
This sounds delicious – perfect for fall weather!
These are my two favorite ingredients together. Love the presentation of your recipe! makes it look even more delicious.
The Cinnamon Apple Baked Oatmeal looks so gooood!
I have carried out many of your suggestions and found serious results. Thank you!