Servings: 12 serving(s)
Prep time: 15 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
If you like old fashioned porridge you’ll love these muffins.
Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins are like a bowl of porridge for people on the go. Made with a combination of rolled oats and whole wheat flour they’re wholesome, filling and are just the right kind of sweet for a healthy snack. And they’re refined sugar-free — sweetened only with molasses and maple syrup.
While I enjoy them at breakfast, or mid-morning, my son has been eating them as an afternoon snack. They’re a good stand in for dessert too if you’re in the mood for something that isn’t too sweet.
Molasses and maple syrup are a great pairing in recipes. Using half molasses means that you’ll need to use less maple syrup, saving some money, and the maple-molasses blend tastes more like a dark, late season maple syrup, the grade that’s much more flavourful.
The recipe is inspired by a recipe in the terrific cookbook, Real Sweet by Shauna Server.
Maple Molasses Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins Recipe
Makes 1 dozen muffins
Ingredients:
- ¾ cup milk
- ½ cup plain yogurt
- ¼ cup pure maple syrup
- ¼ cup Crosby’s Fancy Molasses
- 5 Tbsp. grape seed oil (or canola)
- 1 large egg, room temp
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 ½ cups rolled oats (not instant)
- 1 cup + 2 Tbsp. whole wheat flour
- 1 ½ tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. powdered ginger
- ¾ cups blueberries (frozen or fresh)
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 425 F and prepare muffin pan (grease muffin cups or line with papers).
- In a medium bowl whisk together the wet ingredients.
- In a large bowl whisk the dry ingredients. Add the blueberries and stir to coat.
- Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour over the wet mixture. Stir gently until almost combined.
- Spoon into prepared pan and sprinkle over a few rolled oats.
- Place in oven and immediately reduce the oven temperature to 400 F.
- Bake for 15-20 min
Nutritional info: Per muffin:
Calories: 196.6, Fat: 7.4 g, Saturated Fat: .9 g, Cholesterol: 16.3 mg, Sodium: 180 mg, Carbs: 28.2, Sugar: 9.3 g, Protein: 4.6 g, Fibre 2.6 g, Potassium: 229.7 mg, Calcium: 65.2 mg
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