Brennans oatmeal custard

Recreate the magic of Brennan’s Oatmeal Custard with this easy copycat recipe! This heartwarming breakfast custard with oats is baked to perfection to start your morning with a smile. Served with a vibrant medley of fresh berries and a dollop of whipped cream, this dish is a harmonious wastefulness of nutrition and indulgence. Oatmeal custard is perfect for a leisurely brunch or an energizing breakfast.

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Oatmeal Breakfast Custard

You can make Brennan’s famous oatmeal custard with this easy oatmeal recipe. This breakfast custard is light yet rich. It’s dessert for breakfast! What a way to start the day!

Brennan’s Oatmeal Custard is a delightful recipe that turns your familiar breakfast oatmeal into a rich and linty dessert! The creaminess of this oatmeal custard makes it finger really luxurious and whoever thought oatmeal could be described that way!

About Brennan’s

Brennan’s opened in 1967 in Houston as a sister restaurant to the world-famous Commander’s Palace in New Orleans. The restaurant is renowned for using the freshest local ingredients and offering many original creations as part of its topnotch cuisine.

For weekend dinners, Brennan’s Creole Jazz Brunch remains a five-star tradition among Houston’s Sunday brunch enthusiasts. Diners enjoy tantalizing jazz music and the fragrance of fresh flowers. Southern mainstay dishes and twists on archetype favorites are graciously served in sun-filled dining areas.

What Is Custard?

Custard is a thick, creamy, rich dessert. Dessert custards are sweet, but custards can moreover be savory dishes. They are made with whole eggs or egg yolks, surf or milk, flavorings (e.g., vanilla, nutmeg), and optional sweeteners (e.g., sugar, honey). A vital custard recipe is thickened and set by the eggs. However, a small value of starch is included in some recipes to provide widow thickening power and body.

Custards as we know them today stage all the way when to the Middle Ages when custard was used as a filling for a tart or flan. In fact, the word custard comes from croustade, which is a French word for a tart with a crust. Without the end of the 15thCentury, creams using fruit became popular, and custards began to be made in individual dishes rather than just as a filling for a crust.

Why You Should Add Baked Oatmeal Custard to Your Next Brunch

This breakfast oatmeal custard recipe is moreover unconfined to serve at brunch. Plane if you have family members who don’t like oatmeal, they will love this custard. It’s warm, rich, and sweet and doesn’t taste like oatmeal at all!

Once you try this recipe for breakfast custard, oatmeal will never be the same!

Baked Oatmeal Custard Ingredients

Heres what you need to make this succulent breakfast custard:

Oatmeal (Old-fashioned rolled oats)
Eggs
Milk
Whipping cream
Brown sugar
Cinnamon
Vanilla extract
Fresh raspberries and blackberries

Copycat Brennan's oatmeal custard ingredients on a tray.

Equipment Needed

You probably once have the kitchen items you need for making this recipe, but just in case:

How to Make Breakfast Custard

Combine the eggs, milk, and surf and push through a fine mesh sieve.

Egg, milk, and surf mixture for oatmeal custard.

Add the brown sugar, cinnamon, oatmeal, vanilla, and berries.

Adding oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla to an egg mixture for oatmeal custard.

Pour into prepared ramekins to within 1/4 inch of the top.
Place the ramekins in a sultry dish and fill the sultry dish with water to within 3/4 inch of the top of the ramekins.

Bake, covered, at 350�F for 1 hour.
Serve warm, garnished with berries and whipped cream.

Closeup of copycat Brennan's oatmeal custard on a spoon and in ramekins.

Recipe Variations

Raspberries and blackberries are used here but you can substitute other fruit combinations such as strawberries and blueberries. Here are a few other suggestions:

Almond slivers are a unconfined addition.
Think well-nigh subtracting schizy and dates instead of berries.
You can plane top your custard with hot fudge sauce, caramel sauce, or maple syrup.

What to Serve With Baked Oatmeal Custard

Serve breakfast custard with your favorite breakfast dishes, such as scrambled eggs or French toast.

This breakfast custard recipe makes a unconfined dessert without a simple main course, such as baked white fish, roast chicken, or grilled meats.

How to Store, Freeze, and Reheat

Storing: Allow the baked oatmeal custard in the ramekins to tomfool to room temperature. Imbricate each ramekin with a lid or tightly with plastic wrap. Place the covered ramekins in the refrigerator. They can typically be stored for up to 4 days.

Freezing: Without the custard in the ramekins has cooled to room temperature, imbricate each tightly with plastic wrap. For an uneaten layer of protection, imbricate the wrapped ramekins with aluminum foil or place them into a larger freezer-safe bag. Label the bag or ramekin with the date. The custard can be frozen for up to 3 months.

Reheating: If the custard has been stored in the refrigerator, you can reheat it in the microwave or oven. For the microwave, remove the plastic wrap and heat for well-nigh 1 minute or until heated through. In the oven, heat at 350�F for well-nigh 10 minutes or until warmed.

If the custard has been frozen, it’s weightier to first thaw it in the refrigerator overnight. If you’re in a hurry, you can moreover use the defrost function on your microwave surpassing heating it normally.

Copycat Brennan's oatmeal custard with whipped surf and berries on a spoon and in ramekins.

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