If you love oatmeal, peaches, or pumpkin spice, you will love this recipe for Slow Cooker Spiced Peach Oatmeal! Enjoy a hot breakfast as soon as you wake up!
Slow Cooker Spiced Peach Oatmeal
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Oatmeal is one of my favorite breakfasts. It’s especially my favorite when it cooks by itself in the slow cooker overnight and it’s ready when I wake up. Add in some yummy fruit and maybe my favorite spices of all time, and I (almost) look forward to getting out of bed in the morning!
If you love pumpkin pie spice or peaches, you’ll love this oatmeal. If you don’t love pumpkin pie, you’ll still love this oatmeal. It doesn’t taste like pumpkin pie, it just tastes like all those wonderful fall spice flavors. You can use fresh, frozen, or canned peaches in this recipe, so you can make it all year long, not just when fresh peaches are in season! I do recommend using fresh or frozen peaches. The canned ones will work, but they get pretty mushy after being in the slow cooker overnight.
How Do I Cook Oatmeal In a Slow Cooker?
To cook oatmeal in a slow cooker, you need to use steel-cut oats (and not the quick-cooking version). If you use any other kind of oatmeal, you’ll end up with an over-cooked, mushy, sticky mess. Trust me. If you have never had steel-cut oats before, you’re in for a treat! They have a little different texture than what you’re probably used to with instant, or even long-cooking, classic oats. Steel-cut oats are my favorite!
Different Types of Oatmeal
If you’re wondering what makes steel-cut oats different from “regular oats,” you can find out more here:
How Long Do I Cook Steel-Cut Oats in a Slow Cooker?
This oatmeal cooks for 8 hours on low. Because it cooks so long while you’re sleeping, the other big trick to slow cooker overnight oatmeal is to not let your oatmeal burn. If it burns, it gets stuck to the slow cooker (which makes it hard to clean) and it doesn’t taste very good. The easiest way around this is to set up your slow cooker like a double-boiler. It sounds hard, but it’s actually really easy to do! I first learned about this trick from my friend Cris at Recipes that Crock. She uses it in this Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal recipe.
Use a glass bowl (or another oven-safe bowl) inside your slow cooker. The biggest bowl from this set fits perfectly inside my 6-quart Crock Pot. (But it doesn’t fit inside my Hamilton Beach 6 quart slow cooker. They are shaped a little differently.)
Put your oatmeal ingredients inside the glass bowl. Then fill the slow cooker up (outside the bowl) with water until the water level is about halfway up the side of the bowl. (It took about 5 cups of water in mine.) If you put too much water in, it will boil over and spill into your oatmeal.
3 Ways to Take the Fear Out of This Recipe
- Different Types of Oatmeal
- Fresh, Frozen, & Canned Vegetables
- How to Convert Oven Times to Slow Cooker Times
3 More Recipes to Try
If you love oatmeal, you’ll love overnight oats even more. Be sure to give these other oatmeal recipes a try!
- Brown Sugar Oatmeal (overnight, slow cooker)
- Pumpkin Pie Baked Oatmeal
- Slow Cooker Irish Oatmeal (overnight, slow cooker)
Printable Recipe Card for Slow Cooker Spiced Peach Oatmeal:
- 2 large peaches, sliced (about 2 cups) - or 28-ounce can sliced peaches, drained
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 1 Tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 cup steel cut oats
- 2 cups milk
- 1 cup water
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla
- In a glass bowl, mix peaches, sugar, pumpkin pie spice, nutmeg, and oats.
- Add milk, water, and vanilla. Stir gently to mix.
- Place bowl inside slow cooker.
- Pour enough water outside the bowl (inside the slow cooker) to come halfway up the side of the bowl. You are creating a "double boiler" effect inside the slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.
- Serve immediately.
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How big a bowl do you put the mixture in? If the ingredients fit in the bowl is that big enough.
The bowl should be big enough to hold the oatmeal ingredients, but small enough to fit inside the slow cooker with the lid on.
Can you leave it in the crockpot for over 8 hours? I would not be able to turn it off for 11 hours. What should I do?
It might burn after 11 hours, and the peaches will probably fall apart into mush (but they should still taste good). For 11 hours, you will definitely want to cook on low and use the double-boiler method (a bowl inside the slow cooker). That will help it not burn, but I can’t promise anything. Good luck!