Yummy and healthy apple oatmeal muffins are so versatile as a master mix. Use your mill to create homemade goodness your family will crave!
Breakfast is a great place to use more and more of your kitchen skills to nourish your family. Milling your own flour is both a flavor and nutrition boost that you can easily incorporate into most recipes. Live flour and organic oats combine to make a really substantial muffin with a delicious flavor profile.
Best of all, you get to choose the flavor, If you don’t have any apple butter, feel free to use whatever fruit jam or preserves you have in the pantry to make your own made-from-scratch muffin creation.
Everyone loves muffins for breakfast and as a snack!
Muffins don’t have to be loaded with sugar to be delicious. If that’s what you’re after, then have a cupcake. These slightly-sweet treats can be hearty enough when eaten alone for breakfast or you can beef them up a bit with some eggs or bacon.
Mix and match your own combination of dried fruit and canned fruit butter or preserves to make endless variations on this theme. While you’re at it, try some spelt in place of the soft white wheat or einkorn. You’ll be amazed at the difference just a slight change in the flavor profile can bring.
Secret to healthy apple oatmeal muffins: rest!
The real secret to these and any other muffins really is the REST time. Once the wet and dry ingredients are put together muffin and pancake batters both really benefit from a bit of a rest. Yes, the leavening agents can begin to activate, but the real magic happens when you wait a bit to allow the flour and oats to absorb some of the liquid.
You can cook confidently from scratch!
Having a go-to master muffin recipe in your collection will allow you to quickly become more comfortable in your role as a scratch cook. This recipe is a keeper that you can rely on week after week as you plan your meals around real food and real nutrition. Gain confidence as you break your ties with packaged convenience foods and glide masterfully into the world of homemade meals.
Basic recipes are the guidelines that keep you from going off the rails. Follow them carefully as you are learning then alter them confidently once you have mastered the basics. The homestead kitchen is your domain and you are the master cook. Knowledge gives you skills and skills build confidence.
Tools needed for healthy apple oatmeal muffins.
You will need a grain mill if you are grinding your own fresh flour and you will need a muffin pan and liners. Beyond that you will likely find that a quality silicone spatula also is quite handy when stirring and scraping batter. Now, let’s make some muffins!
Healthy Apple Oatmeal Muffins with Freshly Milled Flour
Equipment
- 1 Flour Mill
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 Cup Freshly Milled Flour I prefer Soft White but Spelt and Einkorn work equally well here.
- 1 Cup Organic, old-fashioned Oats
- 2 Tsp Baking Powder
- 2 Tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 1/2 Tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 Tsp Real Salt We love Redmond's
- 1 Cup Fresh Milk
- 1/2 Cup Light Brown Sugar or Sucanat
- 1 Large Egg
- 1/4 Cup Avocado, Coconut, or other quality oil
- 1/4 Cup Apple Butter Can use pumpkin, pear, plum, or any preserve you have on hand.
- 1/4 Cup Dried fruit such as cranberries, raisins, ginger, peach, etc.
Instructions
- Grease or line a 12-cup Muffin Tin
- Preheat oven to 400°F
- Mill flour for recipe if you have not already done so.
- Dry Ingredients: In a mixing bowl stir together flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
- Wet Ingredients: In another mixing bowl, stir together milk, brown sugar, egg, oil, and fruit butter.
- Combine wet and dry ingredients into one bowl and stir gently until flour is no longer visible. Gently fold in dry fruit.
- Allow batter to rest 10-15 minutes undisturbed on counter.
- Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling to about 2/3 full.
- Bake 17-22 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.
- Remove from pan and allow to cool.
- Serve warm with a generous dallop of real butter and some raw milk.
There is so much information online. Most of it is helpful, but it may become overwhelming at times. Dixie Living is a place where you can step away from the noise to a simpler way of life. Please let me know what questions you are having as you learn to cook from scratch. I’m just a comment away!