These Healthy Apple Oatmeal Muffins are a great muffin, even without looking at its healthy attributes - heart healthy oats, lower sugar!
Originally published June 21, 2013. Updated on 4/6/2021
(Pina Colada Muffins and Cardamom-Pear Streusel Muffins have been some of the biggest hits lately).
It's a lot of fun to run wild with it, creating new recipes for him.
We're talking about cleaning up our diets and aiming to get healthier in the coming months, and breakfast is a great place to start.
I created this recipe to suit a few of his requirements - low fat, ease up on the sugar, and raise the fiber content.
Healthier Apple Oatmeal Muffins
One of the things I've done with this is to substitute a lot of the all-purpose flour with oats - both in rolled and flour form.
In addition to being very heart-healthy (Thinking of you, Mairlyn Smith!), oats are lower in carbs than all-purpose flour, lower glycemic, have fewer calories, AND contains more fiber. Plus, it adds flavor - Score!
Aside from the flour substitutions, I cut the amount of processed sugar, relying on natural sweetness from the apples and oats. The butter in my normal muffins was swapped out in favor of apple sauce.
What this gives you is a wonderfully moist, dense muffin with a ton of great flavor. It sounds so cliche, but you wouldn't be able to tell that it's "diet" from eating these... SO good!
More Muffin Recipes!
Are you a fellow fan of muffins? I have some more marvellous muffin recipes for you!
All-Bran Muffins
Apple Blueberry Muffins
Banana Nut Muffins
Breakfast Corn Muffins
Cardamom Pear Streusel Muffins
Carrot Cake Muffins
Cranberry Orange Pistachio Muffins
Eggless Banana Muffins
Gingerbread Muffins
Maple Pumpkin Spiced Muffins
Orange, Date, and Almond Muffins
Peach Cobbler Muffins
Pina Colada Muffins
Stuffed Banana Nutella Muffins
Sweet Potato Muffins
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Anyway, on to that Healthier Apple Oatmeal Muffins Recipe!
Healthy Apple Oatmeal Muffins
Equipment
- Muffin Tin
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rolled Oats
- 1 cup Oat Flour
- ½ cup All-Purpose Flour
- ½ cup Flax Meal
- ½ cup Brown Sugar
- 2 tsp. Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoon Cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- ¼ teaspoon Baking Soda
- pinch Ground Cloves
- 2 Large Eggs lightly beaten
- ¾ cup Milk
- ½ cup Unsweetened Apple Sauce
- 1 Apple peeled and grated
- 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 F. Line 12 muffin cups with liners, or spray with baking spray.
- In a large bowl, combine oats, flours, flax meal, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and cloves. Make a well in center of flour mixture; set aside.
- In another bowl, combine eggs, milk, apple sauce, grated apple, and vanilla extract. Add wet mixture all at once to the flour mixture.
- Stir just until moistened (batter should be lumpy.) Divide batter between 12 prepared muffin cups, filling each to almost full.
- Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until golden and a wooden toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean.
- Cool in muffin cups on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Remove from muffin cups; serve warm.
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