Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal (with Chocolate Chips)

Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal is a wholesome, warm, comforting breakfast for any day of the week. Kids love the sweetness and chocolate chips; parents love the sneaky pumpkin and other healthy ingredients. I feel great about filling my family’s tummies with this first thing in the morning. This baked oatmeal recipe is an easy one to double and freeze too!

We are baked oatmeal fanatics around here, as you may know. Both my kids and Polly’s kids eat the stuff by bushels.

I find myself making the Brownie Baked Oatmeal repeatedly, while Polly probably makes the original Baked Oatmeal with Fruit recipe the most.

But, all the baked oatmeal recipes on here are worth trying.

What’s In Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal?

This baked breakfast treat is sweet but not too sweet, autumnal (I love that word), and packed full of sneaky nutrition with pumpkin, bananas, and whole grains throughout. You likely have all of the ingredients in your pantry! Here is what you will need to make it:

• Milk
• Eggs
• Vanilla
• Melted coconut oil or butter
• Pumpkin puree
• Bananas
• Brown sugar
• Salt
• Oats (quick or old fashioned will work) (Gluten-Free Option: Use gluten-free oats.)
• Ground flaxseed
• Baking powder
• Cinnamon
• Mini chocolate chips

How to Serve Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal

After doing a deep dive into the Internet’s best baked oatmeal recipes, I learned there is conflicting information on how to serve baked oatmeal. The two main beliefs are as follows:

Option 1: Serve it in a bowl

This is my personal favorite way to serve baked oatmeal. It makes it easy to pour milk on top and feels a bit more “oatmeal” like.

Option 2: Slice it up & serve on a plate

If the recipe holds together enough (like this one does), you can slice it up into pieces and serve it on a plate. The presentation is a bit prettier this way too which always helps my kids who are prone to judge a recipe based on how it looks.

Either way, your baked oatmeal will taste great.

How to Freeze Baked Oatmeal

We are big fan of freezer meals. In fact, we’ve built a small freezer meal empire including cookbooks, 1 Hour Freezer Prep, and an index of tried and true freezer meal recipes.

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to you that we have freezer meal instructions for this recipe!

Freeze For Later: 

Put together the casserole either in one 9×13 inch casserole dish or two 8×8 inch casserole dishes (like what’s pictured in this blog post), but don’t bake it. Tightly wrap the dish in a few layers of plastic wrap or foil (or a tight-fitting lid) and freeze.

Prepare From Frozen: 

Thaw completely using one of these safe methods. Cook according to instructions.

Recipe Tip: Store Overripe Bananas for Later

P.S. If you have more overripe bananas than you didn’t use in this recipe, did you know you can freeze them? Here is the best way to freeze bananas for later. Now you’ll be ready to make Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal anytime!

Want More Pumpkin Recipes?

With YEARS worth of content and recipes on Thriving Home, it can be easy to forget about some amazing pumpkin recipes that we have shared over the years. Here are our Top 10 Pumpkin Recipes that you simply must try!