How to Make Easy Baked Breakfast Oatmeal Muffins:

Gather your ingredients which include: oats, flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, brown sugar, and butter. You will also need milk, eggs, toasted pecans, and cinnamon.

Ingredients for Baked Breakfast Oatmeal Muffins.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

In a large skillet over medium heat, add the oats and butter and toast the oats for approximately eight minutes until the oats are golden brown. Stir frequently while the oats are toasting.

Toasting oatmeal in a skillet for oatmeal muffins.

Add the toasted oats to a food processor fitted with a metal blade and process for approximately 30 seconds or until the oats are ground up and resemble coarse meal.

Grinding oatmeal into flour using a food processor.

Add flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda to the oats in the food processor and pulse until everything is mixed well.

Using a food processor to combine oat flour with the rest of the dry ingredients for oatmeal muffins.

In a large bowl, add brown sugar and melted butter and mix well. Add milk and eggs and mix everything. Add the flour and whisk until everything is combined. Set aside for 20 minutes for the oat flour to absorb the liquid ingredients.

While the muffin batter rests, make the muffin topping by combining oats, flour, toasted pecans, cinnamon, butter, brown sugar and a pinch of salt.

Oatmeal muffin topping of oats, butter, nuts, and brown sugar in a bowl.

Spray a 12-cup muffin pan with non-stick baking spray containing flour, or use muffin paper liners. Use an extra large ½ cup ice-cream scoop, and fill each muffin cup to the brim. Sprinkle about two tablespoons of the topping on top of the batter in each muffin cup.

A muffin pan with oatmeal muffin batter and topping filling the cups.

Bake the muffins for approximately 25 minutes or until they are done.

Remove from the oven and cool on a metal cake rack for about 10 minutes. Remove the muffins from the pan and let cool for approximately another 20-30 minutes. Serve and enjoy!