Apple Oatmeal Spice Breakfast Cake

This is a very filling breakfast square, packed with oats, and done in the style of an apple upside down cake. So, it has a "gooey" topping. One square is usually enough for breakfast but it's hard to keep it at just one! 

 

1/2 cup maple syrup

1 tablespoon molasses

1 cup butter

3 tablespoons brown sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1 teaspoon allspice

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups old fashioned oats

½ cup oat bran

1/3 cup unsalted, raw pumpkin seeds

3/4 cup whole wheat flour

¾ cup all-purpose flour

½ cup flax meal

½ cup Greek Style yogurt

2/3 cup half and half

Juice of 1 lemon

2 tablespoons Arrowroot Flour

1 cup fresh or frozen Blueberries

1 Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored and sliced into wedges

1.      In a bowl, mix together the oats, pumpkin seeds, oat bran, flax meal, spices, flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add the blueberries to the flour mixture so that they are coated with the flour. This helps prevent them from sinking to the bottom of the batter.

2.      In a large saucepan, melt together the butter (save 1 tablespoon to put with apples at the bottom of the baking dish), half and half, molasses, vanilla, 2 tablespoons of sugar, and maple syrup. Bring to a rolling boil and cook for 5 minutes until the mixture thickens enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon. Set aside to cool.

3.      Grease a 8 inch by 8 inch baking dish with butter and line the bottom with parchment paper. Arrange the wedges of apples at the bottom and add the 1 tablespoon of butter that has been cut into small pieces. Sprinkle the remaining tablespoon of brown sugar over the apples and butter.

4.      Whisk eggs, and yogurt, mixing well.

5.      Add the cooled butter mixture to the egg and yogurt mixture, whisk and add the lemon juice. Then add the dry ingredients. Mix with a wooden spoon.  

6.      Bake in a 350° oven for about 1 hour until top is golden brown and a tester inserted comes out clean. The finished product should be firm to touch. Cut into 16 squares when cool.