Baked Oatmeal

This is another budget bytes recipe. You can see her pictures and price break down here: http://budgetbytes.blogspot.com/2011/07/baked-oatmeal-355-receipe-052-serving.html I like how she puts the cost of everything there. It makes me feel even better when I have ingredients much cheaper than she has listed.

I love oatmeal for breakfast when it is cold outside. Eli loves this recipe too. Hooray! Sometimes I can get Abe to eat it.

INGREDIENTS
2 med. peaches (can be any fruit, you need about 2 cups. I used 2 cups apples and it was great.)
1/2 cup blueberries
1.5 cups milk
1 cup plain yogurt
1 large egg
1/4 cup brown sugar (Needs more. I double it.)
2 cups old-fashioned oats (Quick oats are great too. The texture is different though.)
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp ground ginger (I used 1/2 tsp.)
1/4 tsp cinnamon (I used 1 tsp. Cinnamon goes perfectly with apples.)


STEP 1: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Clean the peaches and cut them into chunks. Place the peaches and blueberries in the bottom of an 8x8 baking dish coated with non-stick spray.

STEP 2: In one bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients (milk, yogurt, egg, sugar). In a separate bowl, stir together the dry ingredients (oats, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon). Combine the two bowls and stir until evenly mixed. Pour the mixture over the fruit in the baking dish.

STEP 3: Cover the dish with foil (to keep the moisture in and steam the oats) and place in the preheated oven. Cook for 20 minutes. Remove the foil at 20 minutes and continue to bake until the top is golden brown (about 25 minutes more).

STEP 4: Serve warm with cold milk, whipped cream, vanilla yogurt or just plain!

This dish can be refrigerated and eaten either hot or cold throughout the week.

I wonder if I could do something similar in the crockpot. I just worry that it will burn like anything I have ever tried to bake in a crockpot.