The night before, in a large mixing bowl, set 1 1/2 cups old fashioned rolled oats to soak in 1 1/2 cups sour milk. (1 1/2 cups of milk soured with 1 1/2 TB apple cider vinegar.) Stir together.
In a smaller bowl, combine the dry ingredients:
3/4 cup brown rice flour
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 tsp baking powder
Set these dry ingredients aside. They will be used the following day.
The next morning, melt 2 TB butter. Pour the melted butter into the soaked oat mixture along with 2 beaten eggs. Stir to completely incorporate.
Add the dry ingredients and stir again. Finally, add about 1/2 cup chopped pecans (or walnuts) and one large, peeled and diced apple. Stir the entire mixture well and then pour into a buttered 9x13 pan. Sprinkle top with cinnamon sugar.
Bake in 350* oven for about 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Serve warm for breakfast. If you ever find left-overs,try it with some vanilla yogurt on the side.
- If you're not going GF, just substitute whole wheat flour for the rice flour. That's what my original recipe used.
- I like to use buttermilk or kefir instead of the sour milk. They all work well.
- The first times we did this in a 12" dutch oven. It was wonderful! Melt the butter in the bottom of the hot dutch oven, then pour it into the oat mixture. This does double-duty by melting the butter and coating the oven.
- We have had suggestions to use peaches or raspberries in place of the apples. Try it and post results for us!
- This is great for families! Put the cake in the oven While it bakes you can work on the usual morning routine. The wonderful aroma will get everyone to breakfast effortlessly.
- I have cut the recipe in half for a 9x9 pan. Very successful. But then there is not any left-over!
