Healthier Apple Oatmeal Muffins

Healthier Apple Oatmeal Muffins

Originally published June 21, 2013. Updated on 4/6/2021

These Healthier Apple Oatmeal Muffins are a great muffin, even without looking at its healthy attributes - heart healthy oats, lower sugar!

In the past couple of months, I've gotten back in the habit of making a fresh batch of muffins for my husband (almost) every weekend, so he has breakfasts for most of the week.

(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!

Anyway, on to that Healthier Apple Oatmeal Muffins Recipe!

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Healthier Apple Oatmeal Muffins

These Healthier Apple Oatmeal Muffins are a great muffin, even without looking at its healthy attributes - heart healthy oats, lower sugar!

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time20 mins

Total Time30 mins

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Servings: 12 Muffins

Calories: 189kcal

Author: Marie Porter

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.

Nutrition

Calories: 189kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 29mg | Sodium: 235mg | Potassium: 188mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 72IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 105mg | Iron: 2mg

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