Baked Oatmeal

For those of us here in Arizona, this is such a great time of year! Baking time, hot chocolate time, warm breakfast time. I love it, no more 100 degrees before 8 a.m. So I especially love making yummy, tummy warming breakfasts for my family. I had tried a baked oatmeal last year and yes we liked it, but we didn't love it. So I started searching for recipes again a month ago and found this one from Our Hearts Inn Bed and Breakfast and it was awesome! I made a few changes, adding vanilla and cinnamon and coconut, and it's a keeper! Threw my old recipe away.


Baked Oatmeal:
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1/2 cup butter, melted
2 eggs
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups oatmeal
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup coconut
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

**Optional: add dried cranberries, raisins, or other dried fruit. Or add 1 cup peeled, chopped apples.

Stir oatmeal, brown sugar, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt together. Add melted butter, milk and vanilla, stir. Add eggs and beat/mix in. Add coconut. Pour into 13x9 buttered pan. Bake at 375° for 25 minutes. Can top individual servings with milk, 4 of my 6 kids wanted milk on theirs, other 2 didn't!