Samoa Baked Oatmeal
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Published Mar 18, 2020, Updated Mar 05, 2024
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Love coconut, caramel and chocolate? You will adore this healthy Samoa baked oatmeal. It’s made with coconut milk, date caramel and a chocolate drizzle.
I’m not sure how it took me so long to combine two of my favorite foods but here we are… Samoas + baked oatmeal had a baby and it’s delicious! This breakfast recipe is sweet, but still pretty healthy and really hits the spot. I’d like to personally request this at all brunches moving forward! I’m calling it now: this Samoa baked oatmeal will be the new cinnamon roll. 😜
Here’s What You Need:
- old fashioned rolled oats
- coconut milk – we’re using canned coconut milk for this recipe – regular or light.
- date caramel sauce – this recipe is super simple (only 4 ingredients) and worth making!
- ground flaxseed
- applesauce
- coconut oil, vanilla extract, baking powder and sea salt.
- unsweetened shredded coconut
- chocolate chips – I like Enjoy Life or Lily’s chocolate chips
The Star of the Show…
In my opinion, the date caramel sauce is the star of this recipe! I’ve used it in my salted caramel oatmeal and on my apple nachos but I figured it needed to make an appearance with a baked oatmeal recipe too!
While it is an extra step it’s super simple and only slightly more difficult than buying a caramel sauce at the store. And the ingredients for my homemade date caramel are waaay better than the ingredients you’ll find in store-bought caramel. Most have high fructose corn syrup, preservatives and food coloring.
For the date caramel, all you have to do is blend all ingredients in a high powered blender or food processor. You’ll have a caramel sauce made out of whole food ingredients in no time at all. Highly recommend keeping a stash of this caramel in the fridge at all times.
Meal Prep Oatmeal? Heck Yes!
One of my favorite things about baked oatmeal is that it is perfect for meal prep. The entire recipe (besides the date caramel) can be mixed in one bowl. Then you simply bake it and portion out your servings. Let the baked oatmeal cool completely before putting it in an airtight container and storing in the refrigerator for up to five days. When you’re ready to enjoy, you can eat cold or reheat it. My personal favorite way to reheat baked oatmeal is to pop it in the toaster oven. Then I like to add a splash of milk and top with an extra drizzle of date caramel sauce!
More Baked Oatmeal Recipes to Try:
- Strawberry Banana Baked Oatmeal
- Chocolate Baked Oatmeal
- Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal
- Peanut Butter Banana Baked Oatmeal
- Peach Baked Oatmeal
- S’mores Baked Oatmeal
More Oatmeal Recipes:
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Samoa Baked Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
- 1 15oz can regular or light canned coconut milk (about 1 and ¾ cups)
- 1/4 cup date caramel, see recipe below
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 Tablespoon ground flaxseed
- ½ cup applesauce
- 1 Tablespoon melted coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 Tablespoons unsweetened shredded coconut + more for topping oatmeal
- 4 Tablespoons chocolate chips, divided
- ¼ teaspoon coconut oil to thin chocolate
- extra date caramel, for drizzling
- Date Caramel
- 8 medjool dates, pitted*
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup unsweetened almond or oat milk + more if needed
Instructions
- Make date caramel by adding all ingredients into a high powered blender or food processor (and blend until mixture is smooth and there are no date chunks detectable. Add additional milk until the date caramel is thin enough to drizzle, but not too thin.
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Spray an 8×8 square baking dish with cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, mix together the oats, coconut milk, date caramel, baking powder, sea salt, flaxseed, applesauce, coconut oil and vanilla.
- Add 2 Tablespoons shredded coconut and 2 Tablespoons chocolate chips and stir until just combined.
- Carefully pour oatmeal mixture into the prepared baking dish.
- Scatter shredded coconut on top.
- Bake for 40 minutes, or until the oatmeal bake has set and flakes are toasted and golden. Remove from the oven and let cool for a few minutes.
- While cooling, add 2 Tablespoons of chocolate chips to a microwave safe container with the coconut oil. Heat in the microwave in 30 second increments until melted. Drizzle chocolate over the baked oatmeal. Then drizzle date caramel sauce over top.
- Serve immediately with chocolate and date caramel sauce drizzle.
- For storage: store in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
- To reheat: To reheat the whole baked oatmeal, cover with foil and reheat in a 350°F oven for about 20 minutes. For individual portions, set toaster oven to 350°F and bake for 5-10 minutes or reheat in the microwave for 1 minute.
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Notes
- Recipe works best fresh, soft medjool dates. If dates are dry or hard, you can soak them in water for about 30 minutes, drain and then use them in the recipe.
- If you’re using the smaller deglet noor dates, you’ll need to use more! This is something you can play around with to get the caramel sauce thickness you’re looking for.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
The date carmel sauce recipe listed with this Samoa Baked Oatmeal recipe has differenet proportions than the linked recipe for your date carmel sauce. One says 8 dates and the other says 16 dates but both list the same amount of liquid. Thank you for clarifying as I’m anxious to make the sauce and try this oatmeal recipe!
Sorry for the confusion, Bonnie. The recipe listed in the samoa baked oatmeal is half the recipe because with 16 dates it makes a much larger serving, but you only need 1/4 cup (plus more for the topping) to make this recipe. I also preferred it to be a but thinner in this recipe which is the reason for the 3/4 cup milk. You can go with either 8 or 16 dates – depends on if you’d like to have leftovers of the date caramel sauce or not!
This was really good! I’ve never made date caramel before but it was delicious! Definitely will make this again!
Woo!! So glad you loved this recipe. Thanks for coming back to leave a review. I so appreciate it!
Is there anything you can sub the dates in the caramel sauce for or sub the caramel sauce for anything else?
Hey Madalyn – You could use a store-bought caramel sauce or you could skip it all together if you prefer.
DELICIOUS!!! Like magic cookie bars. This is my first review on anything on pinterest that I’ve made (thats a ton of food) because DAMN 😛
Omg, yay!! So pumped that you enjoyed this recipe and decided to come back to my site and leave a comment/star rating review. I so appreciate it!
This is baking in my oven as I type! I am so excited to try it! I caught my 2.5year old daughter licking the spoon I used to scrap down the date caramel sauce in my blender and she said it was delicious! & I agree. Can’t wait for it to be done! Love EBF recipes!
Love it!! How did the baked oatmeal turn out?!
This is one of my favorites! The date caramel is heavenly.
This recipe is amazing! I made it exactly as written and it was so good. My two little girls loved it as well. We will definitely make it again! Thanks!
Woot woot!! So glad this baked oatmeal was a hit! Thanks for trying my recipe and for coming back to leave a comment + star rating. I so appreciate it, Brett.
Sounds delicious & I want to make this but I wonder…..you’ve shown the date caramel sauce as one of the ingredients in the oatmeal base. And, also to drizzle over the top once baked. So, just divide the sauce to have some to drizzle over the finished oatmeal or is it NOT supposed to be IN the baked portion; just used to drizzle over? Thanks…
Hey Connie – The date caramel sauce is supposed to be in the recipe (1/4 cup) and also drizzled on top. The recipe for the sauce will make more than 1/4 cup so you’ll have plenty left to drizzle on top at the end. 🙂
Love this recipe. Question – are the measurements for the caramel date sauce correct? The almond milk amount differs from your original date sauce recipe….
Yes, in this recipe it calls for more almond milk to make the sauce more liquidy. 🙂
Oh.my.goodness!! Delicious!!
This was great, the whole family enjoyed it. I substituted one mashed banana for the applesauce as I didn’t have any on hand. We’ve been loving your baked oatmeal recipes!
Ahh yay!! I’m so glad you enjoyed this baked oatmeal recipe, Amelie. Thanks for coming back to leave a comment + star rating. It’s super helpful to other readers, so I appreciate it. <3