Brandon’s World Famous Steel Cut Oat Bake

Ingredients

• 2 cups steel cut oats
• 3 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp dry ground ginger or 3 tsp ginger juice or ~1 inch fresh piece grated
• 3 tsp vanilla extract
• 0.5 canned sweet potato puree or pumpkin
• 2 apples chopped
• 4 cups unsweetened/unflavored soy milk or cow’s milk
  • (use cows milk for a sweeter taster)
• coconut oil or butter
• 3 bananas
• frozen blueberries

Bowl prep

• Combine oats, spices, pumpkin puree and chopped apples in a bowl and stir
• Add 1 cup of milk to oats, stir

Pan prep

• Generously butter or coconut oil 13”x9” baking pan
• Line bottom of pan with banana slices
• Put oat mixture on top of bananas
• Spread frozen blueberries evenly over oats
• Pour remaining 3 cups of milk on top
• (optional) Store in fridge overnight
• Bake at 350F for 1 hour
• Eat with yogurt and peanut butter. And butter and maple syrup if you’re feeling fancy

Notes

• if you prefer a more moist texture, increase pumpkin to 1 full can
• if you like a richer taste add 2 Tbs melted butter to oats mix
• feel free to experiment with spices, sometimes we add a 1/8tsp of nutmeg or swap some cinnamon for cardamom

Thanks to Nisha for copy editing and notes. Thanks to Alex for further feedback.