Chocolate orange baked oatmeal! I love chocolate-orange as a flavor combo, in general. You know those chocolate oranges they sell around Christmas? Yeah, that’s what I was trying to go for. I’m at peace with the amount of sugar in this baked oatmeal, because it was awesome.
Baked oatmeal is my favorite breakfast because it’s convenient, filling, and easy to meal prep. I wouldn’t bother eating a relatively-wholesome breakfast if hadn’t already prepared it, ready to go first thing in the morning.
I don’t ever reheat this — I just grab it from the fridge and eat it cold. You, however, can reheat this if you want. I suspect that baked oatmeal reheats particularly well.
In addition to orange zest and orange juice, I also cut up a Lindt Intense Orange chocolate bar and used that to ramp up the orange flavor here.
Chocolate Orange Baked Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 1½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- ½ cup sugar
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup liquid egg whites
- 2 teaspoon orange zest (about 1 orange's worth)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup orange juice (about 1 orange's worth)
- 1½ cups milk of your choice
- 3 cups uncooked old fashioned rolled oats
- 3.5 ounces orange-flavored chocolate bar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to . Lightly spray a 9×13-inch baking dish with nonstick spray.
- Whisk together the applesauce, sugar and unsweetened cocoa poweder.
- Use the whisk to beat in the egg and liquid egg whites.
- Whisk in the orange zest, baking powder, vanilla extract and salt.
- Juice the orange you just zested and stir the juice into the mixture.
- Stir in the milk
- Stir in the oats.
- Cut the chocolate-orange bar into small pieces. I used a Lindt Intense Orange dark chocolate bar.
- Pour the batter into the prepared baking dish.
- Bake at for about 45 minutes at 375 °F. The oatmeal is done when a toothpick or knife inserted into the center comes out clean.
