Apple Oatmeal Muffins

Apple Oatmeal Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 cup White Whole Wheat Flour
- 1 cup Old Fashioned Oats; divided –make coarse oat flour with 3/4 cup oats in a blender or mini food processor
- 2 tsp. Baking Powder
- 1 tsp. Ground Cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. Salt
- 1/4 tsp. Cardamom or 1/2 tsp. Ground Ginger
- 1 Whole Egg or 1 Tbsp. Flaxmeal + 3 Tbsp. water; let sit 5 min. to thicken
- 1 cup Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
- 1 cup Honeycrisp, or Jazz Apple; roughly peeled, cored, diced (a little skin is ok)
- 1/2 cup Walnut or Pecan Halves, chopped, toasted -type of apple isn’t that important 🙂 + 1/4 cup more oats to sprinkle on top before baking
Directions:
Pre heat oven to 400 F. Spray or line a 12 cup muffin tin with avocado oil or paper cups.
Step 1: Mix first 6 dry ingredients (oats and oat flour = 1 ingredient) in a medium sized bowl until combined. Make a well in the center.
Step 2: In another small bowl, whisk egg and almond milk together.
Step 3: Pour egg mixture into center of the dry mixture well. Stir until just moistened. Fold in apples and walnuts.
Step 4: Using a measuring cup or scooper, scoop muffin batter into prepared muffin tins. Sprinkle each with a pinch of oats. Place into center of pre heated oven and bake for about 15 – 20 minutes. Insert a toothpick into the center of a muffin at 15 minutes; when it comes out dry, remove from oven to a waiting wire rack. After 5 minutes remove from muffin tins to completely cool before storing. Refrigerate.
-> Carb & Fat Portions:
Add protein to make this a complete meal.
2 Unit Meal:
1/4 cup batter muffin
3 Unit Meal:
1/3 cup batter muffin
4 Unit Meal:
(2x) 2u portion muffins
5 Unit Meal:
2u portion + 3u portion muffins






