Dani’s Baked Oatmeal

  ½ cup butter, melted                  

½ cup brown sugar

2 eggs                                      

1 cup milk

3 cups Quick Oats (oatmeal)    

2 teaspoons baking powder

 Vanilla

½ bag frozen berries or I use frozen blackberries, red raspberries, blueberries, and dark cherries

8 pitted prunes (dried) - optional

8 dried apricots - optional

¼ cup raisins - optional

¼ cup chopped dates – optional

Spray a loaf pan (one with “ears” is easier to flip) with no-stick spray. Pre-heat oven to 350 F. Put the mixed up frozen berries in the bottom of the loaf pan. Chop the optional dried fruit. Mix all the other ingredients, including the chopped dried fruit if used, in a large bowl. MIX – do not beat. Put the oatmeal mixture in the loaf pan on top of the mixed berries. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes. Place a platter over the loaf pan, hold the platter and the “ears” of the loaf pan with pot holders and flip the baked oatmeal onto the platter (like an upside-down pineapple cake). Slice and serve with vanilla yogurt on the side. 

Personal note: I like it slathered with the vanilla yogurt.