Chocolate Pecan Pie Baked Oatmeal

Another thanksgiving treat. Pecan pie is good. Pecan pie baked oatmeal is good. How to make it better you ask? Well how do you make anything better? Chocolate.

Something we are currently running out of. I was horrified when I heard. The world really is ending.

First I thought I would use just cocoa powder. But then thought. No it wouldn't be dense enough. And chocolate pecan has gotta be dense. Dense, sweet and full of pecans. So I changed it up, and experimented.

Chocolate Pecan Pie Baked Oatmeal

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup/45g Rolled Oats
1/4 Tsp Baking powder
Pinch of Salt
1 Tsp Cocoa Powder
1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract
1/3 Cup/80ml Milk of choice
2-3 Tsp Maple syrup
1 Big handful of dark chocolate chips, about 30g
1/4 Ripe Avocado
1/4 Cup Pecans, roughly chopped. Save three for the top

Method:

1. Preheat your oven to 350F/180C/Gas Mark 4. Grease a ramekin or dish.
2. Mix oats, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder till well combined.
3. Melt the chocolate in the microwave on 20 second blasts till smooth. Let cool for a minute. Mash up the avocado thoroughly. Fold the avocado, syrup and vanilla into the chocolate. It will be super thick but whip together as well as possible. Beat into the oats and add the milk bit by bit till the mix is wet but not sloppy. Fold in the pecans.
4. Pour into your prepared dish and press the extra pecans into the top. Bake for 17-20 minutes. Till fully set. It will have a cracked top like a brownie. Enjoy!