Description
Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal Bars with a maple creamcheese drizzle will have your family running for the breakfast table in the morning!!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 ½ cups quick-cooking oats (use certified gluten free if needed)
- ¼ cup almond meal
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- ½ cup pumpkin puree
- 1 large egg lightly beaten
- ¼ cup pure maple syrup or honey
- ¾ cup unsweetened almond milk
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
Optional–instead of the cream cheese glaze you could add a sprinkle of mini chocolate chips to the top before baking.
Maple cream cheese glaze:
- 4 oz cream cheese room temperature
- 3 TBS pure maple syrup
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease a 9×9” baking pan, set aside.
- In a small bowl mix together the oats, almond meal, baking powder, salt, pumpkin pie spice, and cinnamon. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix together the applesauce and pumpkin puree.
- Add the egg and maple syrup and stir until combined.
- Add the almond milk and vanilla and stir until completely combined.
- Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until completely combined.
- Pour batter into prepared baking dish.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes or until the stop is set and slightly browned. Remove from oven and let the oatmeal cool to room temperature.
- While oatmeal is baking/cooling, add glaze ingredients to a medium bowl or the container of your standing mixer and whisk/beat until combined.
- Once the oatmeal has cooled, drizzle or spread the glaze on top! Cut and serve!