Oatmeal Breakfast Muffins
The last few weeks I have been getting so much better about taking some time (when I can find it) to meal prep for the week. I prep salad toppings so lunches are covered, then for breakfasts I have been making both overnight oats and these oatmeal breakfast muffins. I love these muffins because they are so versatile! In the recipe you can see I have a few additions you can mix in to the basic recipe for different flavors. I made an apple cinnamon, peanut butter chocolate chip and lemon poppyseed – all of them are so good! And the best part is that Ruth loves them and they are easy to grab and go if we are running late to school. Oh and they freeze well too. Such a win! The recipe calls for rolled oats & oat flour. If you didn’t know, oat flour is just ground up oats that you can make yourself if you have a blender or food processor. But you can also buy oat flour – I get mine from Thrive Market. You can also use quick oats in the place of rolled oats if that’s all you have on hand!
How to make Oatmeal breakfast muffins
These muffins come together incredible easy, you need one bowl and your muffin tin. I mean you can’t beat that. Combine all your dry ingredients, old fashion oats, oat flour, flax meal, chai seeds, baking powder, cinnamon salt. Once you have all the dry ingredients in a bowl be sure and mix with a fork or whisk to evenly distribute and break up any lumps. Next fold in the applesauce, dairy free milk, maple syrup, egg and vanilla extract. This should all come together relatively easily and be ready to drop into muffin tins! The best thing about this recipe is the versatility.
More Oatmeal breakfast muffin varieties to try
- Apple Cinnamon: Add ½ cup finely chopped apples + an additional 1 tsp cinnamon
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip: Add 3 tbsp peanut butter and ¼ cup mini chocolate chips
- Lemon Poppyseed: Add 2 tsp lemon zest and 2 tsp poppyseeds
Muffins in the morning make everything better, here are a few more for you to try:
Grain Free Date and Chocolate Chip Muffins
Grain Free Double Chocolate Muffins
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Oatmeal Breakfast Muffins
- Yield: 12 1x
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups Old Fashioned Rolled Oats
- ¾ cup oat flour
- 2 tablespoons flax meal (ground flax seeds)
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup applesauce
- 3/4 cup dairy free milk
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a muffin pan with paper liners.
- Combine all ingredients in a bowl and stir until well combined.
- Scoop evenly into 12 muffin tins.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
Notes
- Apple Cinnamon: Add ½ cup finely chopped apples + an additional 1 tsp cinnamon
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip: Add 3 tbsp peanut butter and ¼ cup mini chocolate chips
- Lemon Poppyseed: Add 2 tsp lemon zest and 2 tsp poppyseeds
Can you do bananas instead of applesauce?
Yes!
I don’t have oat flour – can it be substituted by something else?
Yes, any flour you have should work!
These are delicious! I used almond flour instead of oat flour (what I had on hand) and they came out amazing. Loved the lemon poppyseed addition.
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That’s great!!
Kelsey! These muffins are a huge hit with my non-muffin eating kiddo! Thank you! Tried the pb&chocolate chip, and apple cinnamon ones. Excited to try the lemon ones next. Thanks again!!
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We love a huge hit with kiddos!!
This recipe is amazing! I just did some chocolate chips on top and the family ate them in a day! Making a double batch this time around.
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Yeah!
Absolutely delicious and super healthy! I made the apple cinnamon version…. and also added the peanut butter because I had to. Great for a quick grab breakfast on the way out the door!
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Peanut Butter is a great addition!
This was so easy to make and saved me when I had to make a ‘nutritious snack’ for daycare. I need to make another batch because there weren’t enough for me!
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Soo good!!!
Excellent and healthy with low amount of sugar.
I didn’t have oat flour so used regular unbleached flour and I used regular milk.
Will make these again!
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Excited to try these! I don’t have flax meal – can I omit it or put something else in place of it?
You can just omit it!
Can these be frozen? Also these are amazing.
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Yes! Let them cool then pop them on a baking sheet to freeze them and store them in a ziplock bag in the freezer!
I used silicon cupcake cups. Flowered directions to a T. Still cooking after 45 mins. Is it the silicon cup
That’s interesting, it should not take that long in cupcake cups. Have you checked your oven temp?
These look great, plan on making them tomorrow. For anyone who doesn’t have oatflour on hand, just throw a cup or 2 in your blender and it will make the flour for you. Super easy. I love the mild flavor and health benefits of the oatflour, always love trying new recipes with it!
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Great reminder!! Enjoy!