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Healthy apple oatmeal muffins

Warm notes of apple and cinnamon. Made with gluten free oats. Great as a snack, treat or on-the-go breakfast. Or even dessert with some vanilla ice cream!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings: 12 muffins
Course: Breakfast, Snack
Calories: 128
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 3 cups gluten free oats (you can use quick oats as well, but texture will be different)
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 cup milk (I used almond milk, but you can sub regular milk or other type of milk)
  • 2 Granny Smith apple (1 apple: peeled and diced, the other: peeled and cut into large chunks = for the apple sauce) (if using store bought apple sauce you will need ½ cup and you only need 1 apple)
  • ¼ cup maple syrup
  • 2 tbsp coconut oil (+ extra for greasing the muffin tin)
  • ½ tsp sea salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 1½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • ½ cup raisins (optional)

Equipment

  • muffin tin
  • Saucepan

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 375F/190C
  2. To make the apple sauce: add the large chunks of apple and a bit of water to a saucepan. Bring to boil, turn the heat to low and let simmer for about 10 minutes until the apples are soft. Now mash the apples with a masher until smooth. Let cool off a bit before adding to the other ingredients. You can skip this step if you use store bought apple sauce
  3. In a medium size mixing bowl mix oats and baking powder.
  4. In another mixing bowl mix the rest of the ingredients including the apple sauce you just made.
  5. Add oat mixture to the other bowl and stir well to combine.
  6. Grease a muffin tin or line with muffin paper.
  7. Divide batter over muffin tin and slide into preheated oven. Bake for 25-30 minutes.
  8. Let cool off for 5 minutes in the muffin tin. Now transfer muffins to a cooling rack for further cooling (if you can resist). Store in an airtight container at room temperature, but in my opinion they are best fresh out of the oven.

Notes

Nutritional information:
the information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist's advice.