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Home » Slow Cooker Spiced Peach Oatmeal

Slow Cooker Spiced Peach Oatmeal

By Marybeth Feutz 14 Comments

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!

overhead view of slow cooker spiced peach oatmeal with extra sliced peaches and cinnamon

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!

two bowls of crockpot spiced peach oatmeal with extra peaches in front of a slow cooker

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:

different types of oatmeal on a wood background

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.

close up view of a colorful bowl of crockpot slow cooker spiced peach oatmeal with fresh peach slices

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.

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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)

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Slow Cooker Spiced Peach Oatmeal

Marybeth Feutz
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!
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 8 hours hrs
Total Time 8 hours hrs 10 minutes mins
Course Breakfast
Servings 4 -6 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 2 large peaches sliced (about 2 cups) - or 28-ounce can sliced peaches, drained
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 cup steel cut oats
  • 2 cups milk
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 Tablespoon vanilla

Instructions
 

  • 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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Comments

  1. SuzieW says

    02/24/2017 at 3:27 pm

    How big a bowl do you put the mixture in? If the ingredients fit in the bowl is that big enough.

  2. Marybeth Feutz says

    03/10/2017 at 12:08 pm

    The bowl should be big enough to hold the oatmeal ingredients, but small enough to fit inside the slow cooker with the lid on.

  3. Jessica M says

    03/10/2017 at 4:54 pm

    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?

  4. Marybeth Feutz says

    03/18/2017 at 7:44 pm

    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!

  5. Nikki says

    08/17/2018 at 11:22 am

    Do you know if this can be converted to the baked oatmeal recipe you have on your blog? I love the taste of many of these varieties but do not care for the texture of traditional breakfast oatmeal. If that makes sense.

  6. Marybeth Feutz says

    08/31/2018 at 2:57 pm

    I haven’t tried this as a baked oatmeal, but I’m sure it can be converted! It’s been a while since I have made baked oatmeal like this one https://www.myfearlesskitchen.com/pumpkin-pie-baked-oatmeal/, so it might take a little experimenting.

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