Healthy Apple Oatmeal Muffin (Gluten Free)
A healthy gluten-free muffin recipe made with oats and flax seeds and lots of apples. The ample amount of apple keeps these muffins moist for days. These apple oatmeal muffins taste like fall!
Servings: 6 muffins
Equipment
- 1 muffin tin
Ingredients
- 120 g quick oats or rolled oats
- 15 g flax seeds
- 100 g milk
- 1 large egg 50 g
- 15 g oil optional
- 25 g molasses
- ¾ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg optional
- Pinch salt optional
- 150 g apple roughly grated using the largest hole (see note 1)
- 35 g raisins
To Garnish
- Pepitas flax seeds, or other seeds
- More grated apples
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Add oatmeal and flax seeds to a blender or food processor and process to a fine powder.
- Add the finely ground oatmeal and flax mixture to a bowl, along with baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt if using. Whisk the dry ingredients together.
- Add the ingredients milk, egg, molasses and oil (if using) to the dry ingredients and whisk until well combined. Fold in the grated apple and raisins.
- Line or grease a muffin tin. Distribute the batter into your prepped muffin tin. Top each muffin with pepitas and more grated apples if desired.
- Bake in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes. When done, the muffins should be golden and domed. A skewer inserted into the muffin may come out slightly tacky but should not be wet.
- Let cool before enjoying. If you did not use oil in these muffins, note that the muffin will have better texture after resting a bit. These apple oatmeal muffins can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Notes
Note 1: Choose apple varieties suitable for baking such as Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, Gold Delicious, Cortland, Baldwin or Pink Lady. Red Delicious and McIntosh are NOT recommended. It is important to grate using the largest hole in a box grater (around 1 cm in diameter).