Jan 18, 2011
I read the comments and cut the sugar down drastically, added a little cinnamon and all spice for some extra flavor, and used Maple Syrup organic oatmeal packages... what I ended up with left a *lot* to be desired. I'm guessing you need a good deal of sugar in the first step in order to get the egg mixture to the consistency that it needs to be to cook correctly. I'm not sure what purpose the additional 1/2 cup would serve as far as "baking science" goes (i'm not educated), but next time I try these that is *all* I'm going to cut out. If you think it's going to be too sweet, I'd suggest using plain quick cooking oats or some other less-sweet variety than what some of the Quaker packages that most people use might have. If I didn't want to eat my Kashi oatmeal I'd try it with that, but 8 packages is too much to use on a potentially disastrous recipe! I might make this again... I have a lot of left over packages from a Costco variety box that I never got to (I was pregnant and didn't like any of it) and I've been running through recipes with instant oatmeal. This might be the best one yet, but that's really not saying much.
—AllysonQCD
