Healthier Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins Food

HEALTHY CHOCOLATE OATMEAL MUFFINS RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325. Place oats on a baking sheet and toast until lightly browned, stirring once (about 4 to 6 minutes). Let cool to room temperature. (If you are in a hurry you can skip this step and use plain old fashioned oats, however the toasting adds flavor!)
• Place 1.5 cups of oats in a food processor and blend/pulse until they reach a rough, flour like consistency.
• Mash bananas well, they should have no lumps. I use my mixer to mash them before adding the other wet ingredients.
• Add eggs, honey, milk and vanilla. Mix to combine.
• Add dry ingredients (including both ground and whole oats) to wet ingredients and mix until just incorporated. Allow these to sit for 10 minutes to soak the oats.
• Fold in approximately 1/2 cup chocolate chips, if using.
• Scoop into muffin tin, lined with muffin wrappers (makes 14 muffins). You can spray the bottom of the liners lightly with spray oil to make the muffins easier to remove from the wrappers.
• Sprinkle muffin tops with reserved oats and remaining 1/2 cup chocolate chips, press down lightly.
• Bake at 350 for about 20 -23 minutes, a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin should come out clean.

HEALTHIER OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease or line a 12-cup muffin pan.
• In a large mixing bowl, whisk together oil, milk, eggs, brown sugar, and applesauce until well combined. Set aside.
• In another mixing bowl, combine oats, flour, baking soda, salt, and ground flax.
• Slowly stir flour mixture into the wet ingredients until just combined.
• Pour batter into prepared muffin tin, filling each cup about ⅔ of the way full.
• Place pan in the oven and bake for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Remove pan from the oven and set aside to cool for 5 minutes. Gently remove muffins from pan and place on a cooling rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container for 3-5 days.

OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS

Steps:

• Combine oats and milk and allow to stand for 15 minutes. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C). Grease each cup of one 12-cup muffin tin.
• Stir egg, oil, 1/2 cup of the brown sugar, chocolate chips and 1/2 cup of the pecans into the oat and milk mixture.
• Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add oat mixture to flour mixture, stirring until just moist. Fill each cup of one 12-cup muffin tin 2/3 full. Sprinkle tops with the remaining brown sugar and pecans.
• Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 20 to 25 minutes.