Birthday Cake Baked Oats

If you love birthday cake flavors, you have to make these birthday cake baked oats. They’re fluffy, moist, super flavorful and everything you could want in baked oats. Oh, and best of all, these baked oats have no protein powder. Yep, a baked oats recipe with no protein powder! 

These vegan baked oats are super fluffy, packed with all the vanilla flavor and best of all super easy to make. Like stupidly easy to make! 

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Birthday Cake Baked Oats Ingredients 

​​I’ll leave the full list of ingredients for this birthday cake baked oats recipe here, along with substitutions for certain ingredients and what you can use instead! 

• Rolled Oats/Oat Flour: you can use either rolled oats and grind them into flour yourself or use oat flour. I recommend grinding your own oat flour, since it’s so much cheaper and super easy. Simply pop the rolled oats into a dry blender or spice grinder and blend until it becomes a fine flour. You can use GF oats for a gluten-free option. 
• Honey/Stevia: To obviously sweeten the oat and add flavor. 
• Almond milk: I personally like using cashew or almond milk, but any kind of plant milk will work well. 
• Lemon juice: is essential to making sure this batter gets fluffy and silky smooth. However, any type of acid will work, like apple cider vinegar or white vinegar. 
• Vanilla Extract: Obviously birthday cake is going to need vanilla extract. If you have it (or want to part with your precious vanilla bean) I recommend using ¼ tsp of the scraped beans for optimal flavor. Hello bougie breakfast! 
• Sprinkles: I love these sprinkles HERE — yes they do have sugar, but it’s not like I have this everyday! Plus they use natural ingredients to dye the sprinkles, rather than chemicals like blue #1 lake, yellow lake #6 etc. Like what even is that?

How to Make Baked Oats

1. Begin by preheating the oven to 350°F and greasing a ramekin with cooking spray. 
2. In a bowl, add the ground oats (or oat flour), baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix well. Then pour in the cashew milk, vanilla extract and lemon juice and whisk well. The batter should look like thick pancake batter. If the batter seems too dry, add in a dash more almond milk. If the batter looks too runny, add in some more oat flour or protein powder. Finally, add in the sprinkles and fold into the batter. 
3. Pour the batter into the prepared ramekin and bake for 20-25 minutes until puffed and golden brown. Let cool for 2 minutes, top with creamy coconut yogurt and honey and enjoy! 

Frequently Asked Questions 

• Why do baked oats take so long to cook? Most often this is because you’ve used too much liquid – so too much water or plant milk. Different types of flours or even the humidity can determine if the baked oats batter is too runny. Ideally, you want a thick pancake batter consistency in order for the baked oats to cook in less than 20 minutes. 
• Are baked oats healthy? I’ve outlined in detail why these baked oats are so healthy. However, since baked oats have oatmeal, cashew milk, date syrup and other whole-foods ingredients, these all combine to make this breakfast packed with protein, whole grains and tons of nutrients. See below for even more details on why baked oats are so healthy! 
• Can baked oats be reheated? You can definitely reheat these baked oats. Simply pop them in the microwave for 2 minutes, covered with foil. Or reheat them in the oven at 350° for 15 minutes covered with foil. Make sure to cover the top of the oats with foil otherwise the top will burn. Also, as a side note, since baked oats are so easy to reheat you can easily make these at night time and then reheat them in the morning for a quick and decadent breakfast! 

More Baked Oats Recipes

• Peanut Butter Cup Baked Oats
• Milk n’ Cookies Baked Oats
• Cinnamon Roll Baked Oats

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