When it comes to healthy holiday baking, yogurt is your friend. Not only is yogurt an excellent source of calcium, protein and Vitamin D but it adds moisture and texture to pancakes, muffins and more.
If you’re looking for an easy edible holiday gift or a homemade treat to give as a hostess gift, Blueberry Oatmeal Bread is the answer. In a time of year when we often find ourselves knee-deep in fudge, cookies, and egg nog, it is nice to receive a gift that you can dive into without any guilt.
Another idea? Make a few loaves ahead of time and freeze to get a head start on the season. Not giving it away? Slice and freeze individually wrapped servings in plastic to pop in the microwave when you need a fast and nutritious breakfast or snack to go.
Your skinny jeans are waiting.
- Serves: 14
- Serving size: 1 slice
- Calories: 194
- Fat: 6.7 g
- Saturated fat: .6 g
- Unsaturated fat: 6.1 g
- Trans fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 29.1 g
- Sugar: 14.1 g
- Sodium: 223 mg
- Fiber: 3.1 g
- Protein: 5.6 g
- Cholesterol: 26 mg
- 1 ½ cups whole wheat pastry flour or white whole wheat flour
- 1 cup oats – old fashioned or quick cooking
- ¾ cup sugar
- ½ cup toasted wheat germ
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups low fat plain yogurt such as Stonyfield
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup blueberries – fresh or frozen
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees and grease a bread pan with non-stick spray or butter.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together dry ingredients: whole wheat flour, oats, sugar, wheat germ, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda and salt.
- Using an electric stand mixer, beat together yogurt, oil, vanilla and eggs over medium speed. Slowly add dry ingredients until just combined then remove from mixer.
- Carefully fold in the blueberries then pour batter into the bread pan. Bake for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Let cool completely before serving or wrapping as a gift.
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I wanted to try to make blueberry oatmeal cookies but now I just want to make this bread!
Oooo cookies sound good too!! Make the bread because then you can turn it into French toast.
I bet the addition of yogurt makes this super moist and delish!! Looks fab
I couldn’t believe how moist it turned out!! The wheat germ gives it a nice crunch too.
I can tell by the look of the photos alone that this bread is insanely moist! Can’t wait to hunt around for more goodies on your site!
Thank you so much! Let me know if you give it a try- we ended up having to make two loaves!
MMm this looks like the perfect breakfast for me!
Love this! It would be perfect breakfast food for me before I dart out the door for work!
Thank you!! It’s perfect for doing just that!! Let me know if you get to try it!
Slather me in oats and serve me up for breakfast. Yo. I love this!
haha I will slather you in oats any time baby!! xo
This looks great, Liz
I love that it’s freezable!
Me too!!! We froze a ton of sliced quick breads when we had A and I want to do it again. It’s so nice to pop in the microwave any time you need a healthy snack.
I love making quick breads with yogurt. I always have some in the freezer. This blueberry and oatmeal sounds wonderful!
I need to get in the habit of making extra to freeze!! We ate two loaves including turning some into French toast. It was amazing! I hope you enjoy.
I just made some blueberry lemon buttermilk cake. Really should share it soon. Though, yours looks so nice and hearty!
This would make a great gift. I have a flat of wild, organic blueberries in my deep freezer that I bought over the summer and need to be used up. This sounds like a good way!
I tried something similar to this in a cookie once–oatmeal and blueberry. They were good but this looks even better! Can’t wait to try!
I love the idea of a cookie!! You can’t go wrong with oats and berries.
Sounds heavenly & healthy. I’d love to try subbing applesauce for the oil, do you think that might make it too gooey?
I bet it would work out just fine, Rebecca. Will you let me know?
I substituted an equal measure of applesauce in place of the oil and no one could tell. That includes my husband who hates healthy cooking. He actually requests this bread. As a side note, I also used 2 cups of blueberries in it. All I can say is Wow!
That is music to my ears – so glad to hear!!! Thank you for making my day!
I made this bread for the first time for a breakfast meeting at work. I hadn’t even tasted it yet and people were waving at me during the meeting to tell me how good it was. I finally took a piece before it was all gone and it was great. I’ll be making this again, thanks!
I’m so glad to hear it was a hit!!!! Thank you for letting me know!!!
What type of whole wheat flour do you recommend for baking? The ones I’ve used seem so heavy and don’t produce a nice texture in baked goods.
To save on calories, I cut the sugar down to 1/4 cup (but doubled the vanilla to 4 tsp and cinnamon to 2 tsp to compensate) and instead of 1/3 cup oil I used 1 Tbsp oil and a mashed banana.
I didn’t have wheat germ so I subsituted 1/2 cup ground sunflower seeds.
I also used ~2 cups blueberries.
Tasted great!
Sounds incredible!!! Thank you for letting me know!
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