How to make Blueberry Oat Crumb Bread
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It’s funny how when you have kids you try to plan ahead of yourself at times.
When Baby Girl began her journey with solid foods I thought I would be frugal and buy baby cereal in bulk when on sale. The plan backfired when I realized I was left with one too many single-grain and multi-grain cereal packs and had to eventually give them away to another mom with a little one younger than her.
I wish I realized I could do more with the cereal than just give it to her as her transitional solid food.
Say what, now?
Yep, I just used Nestle Gerber’s iron-fortified Oatmeal & Banana Cereal in a bread recipe.
And guess what?
How to make Blueberry Oat Crumb Bread
I’m sure you’re thinking this couldn’t possibly work because baby food is well…
baby food.
But au contraire my friend, it’s eye-opening how something as simple as baby cereal can be used in a recipe, taste good and be good for you! (Think Vitablocks- a blend of six B vitamins, vitamin E, C, iron, zinc and calcium-in each serving of cereal)
The addition of juicy blueberries and granola add an extra punch to this recipe.
I urge you to give this a try and see if you won’t go out and buy some baby cereal (even if you don’t have a baby) to use in your baked treats here on out!
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter room temperature
- 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 1/4 cup flour
- 1 cup Nestle Gerber Oatmeal & Banana Cereal You can use any flavors or just a plain Oatmeal too
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup greek yogurt or if you would prefer the not-as-healthy alternative, sour cream
- 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries. Make sure you thaw out the frozen blueberries prior to use
- 2 tbsp flour
- 1 cup granola of choice I used a Vanilla and Almond granola and crumbled it further with my mini pestle
- 2 tsp brown sugar
- 1/4 cinnamon powder
- 2 tsp cold butter
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Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Grease your bread pan or a mini loaves tray
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In your mixing bowl/stand mixer, add the eggs, sugar and mix together for about 30 seconds.
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Add to this mixture the butter, vanilla essence and mix for an additional minute.
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In a separate bowl, mix the dry ingredients together. (Flour, salt and baking soda)
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Now gradually add the dry ingredients, alternating this with the yogurt/sour cream.
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Once all the ingredients are blended well, gently fold in the blueberries ensuring they hold shape.
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Pour the batter into the bread pan or the mini loaves pan 3/4ths of the way and prepare the crumble to top the same.
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For the crumble, mix the butter, 2 tbsp flour, granola, brown sugar and cinnamon powder together. Sprinkle this mixture over the batter.
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Pop the pan/tray into the middle rack in the oven and bake for 20 minutes (for the mini loaves) or 45 minutes for the single bread loaf, or till a toothpick when inserted comes out dry.
I always say the proof of the cake is in the eating. So when you find a loaf missing because Hubs said he couldn’t resist a midnight snack or when your two year old insists on smelling each bite before stuffing large bites in, you know this is a recipe that will be pulled out again.
I took a few slices over to the Bible Study at our neighbor’s home last week and everyone raved about how good the Blueberry Oat Crumb Bread was. When I said I made it using a secret ingredient, following that up with baby cereal, the look on faces around the room was priceless.
Baby cereal in your favorite baked treat really does work.
Try it out for yourself. Here are a few recipes for inspiration.
You could make Mini Chocolate Banana Strawberry Oatmeal Cookies or these Mini Strawberry Cheesecake Bites when you’re craving a sweet treat. If you’re a chocolate lover, you will enjoy these Oatmeal Brownies.
If you’re stumped for breakfast ideas, try these Sweet and Savory Strawberries and Cream Oatmeal Crepes or these Chocolate Oatmeal Waffles. For dinner? Here’s a meatloaf recipe.
Oh and with summer road trips being planned, I know my Blueberry Oat Crumb mini loaves, these Baby Cereal Bars with Fruit , snack pouches filled with Banana Oatmeal Bites and slices of Berry Oatmeal Bread would make great travel snacks.
And yes, all these recipes use baby cereal!
Experiment using the other flavors available at Walmart.
And I challenge you to serve it up to friends and family.
Don’t tell them what’s in it till after they tell you how much they love your dessert or baked treat recipe.
After my success with baby cereal, my next project is fruit ice pops using…
wait for it…
Nestle Gerber 1st Food Fruit.
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Ooh this looks quite tasty, a great snack to share!
I think I could make a coating for fried chicken.
I would use this to make a banana Nut bread.
Mmmm, this bread looks so good. I love a sweet bread with a crispy top.
I would use Gerber cereal in cookies.
Mmmmm I want to try this. I love anything with blueberry and we have some cereal we can use!
I have not tried any yet but I think I would use it in a cookie recipe. The kids always love cookies.
I think it might be good to use it in pancakes or muffins for breakfast.
I would like to use it to make Mini Fruit Pancakes. Thanks for the chance! 🙂
I would make Oatmeal and Banana pancakes with the cereal. Your Blueberry Oat Crumb bread looks amazing!
I use it in our oatmeal cookies! They are always so soft!
I would make banana bread
I would use the oatmeal and banana cereal to make muffins.
I’d like to try the peach apple oatmeal for apple crisp.
I have added their oatmeal cereal to oatmeal raisin cookies.
I would add their oatmeal cereal to a zucchini bread.
I would use the oatmeal as a filler in my meatball recipe.
I have made oatmeal cookies using Gerber cereal.
thank you
I think that you could make carrot cake!
I’d use the oatmeal in banana nut muffins.
I would like to use the cereal in muffins
I could use Gerber Oatmeal and Banana cereal in a oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe!
Teething biscuits!
I will make blueberry muffin with Gerber cereals.
I would make rice krispy treats with the cereal.
I Could Use Gerber Cereal In A Smoothie Recipe.
in making meatballs
I would use this in a baked coffee cake for sure!
It would have been good to use in pancakes.
You could use oatmeal cereal in oatmeal cookies.
I would use it in blueberry crisp.
Baby Food Muffins: Ingredients to make baby food muffins. 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of gerber oatmeal cereal, 1 tsp of baking powder, 2-5oz baby food, mix up and put in a 350 degree over for 18-20 minutes
I have used Gerber Cereal to make granola bars and breakfast cookies for my daughter
I would try to use it in pancakes!
I think the Blueberry Oat Crumb Bread sounds delicious, I would try using the Nestle Gerber Cereal to make Banana Bread.
I would use it to make oatmeal raisin cookies!
I would use Gerber’s Oatmeal & Banana Cereal to make oatmeal banana muffins with chopped walnuts.
All the recipes look amazing and sound so tasty. I would love to make the Sweet and Savory Strawberries and Cream Oatmeal Crepes and some banana nut bread with the oatmeal and banana cereal.
I could probably use Gerber cereal in an Oatmeal cookie.
I could have used this in my apple strudel
I would love to try making some banana strawberry muffins by adding it to the recipe.
I could use it inn meatloaf or muffins but I have never tried this to-date.
I would use the cereal in oatmeal cookies.
I think it would be good in pancakes
I could use it to make cookies.
That looks delicious!!! I can’t believe I’ve never thought of making ice pops with the leftover baby food. I refuse to give my daughter ones full of artificial colors so this would be perfect for my family!