With the onset of cooler weather, my thoughts naturally turn to fall vegetables, with apples at the top of the list. These soft, mildly sweetened, moist muffins have a flavor that is a cross between apple cake, carrot cake, and spice cake. For a quick breakfast, these muffins freeze well and reheat quickly in the microwave at a low temperature.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Additional Time: | 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 muffins |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup old-fashioned oats
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 cup low-fat vanilla Greek yogurt
- ⅓ cup buttermilk
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup peeled and grated apple
- ¾ cup peeled and grated carrots
- ⅓ cup chopped walnuts, lightly toasted
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin or line cups with paper liners.
- Stir together flour, oats, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg together in a large bowl. Whisk together yogurt, buttermilk, oil, egg, and vanilla extract in a second bowl. Fold flour mixture into yogurt mixture, mixing just until combined and flour disappears. Stir together apple, carrot, and walnuts in a separate bowl; gently fold into the batter. Divide batter evenly among the muffin cups.
- Bake muffins in the preheated oven until golden brown or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 17 to 19 minutes.
- Cool muffins in the tin for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- If you’re using a soft, juicy apple, you may find shredding works better than grating.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 181 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 24 g |
| Cholesterol | 17 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 191 mg |
| Sugars | 8 g |
| Fat | 8 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Other than eating it warm right out of the oven, no one in my family liked these. NO FLAVOR!
For people who are looking for a muffin this is a great recipe. No, it’s not sweet and delicious like a cupcake, because it’s a muffin. A healthy, hearty breakfast muffin. I followed the recipe exactly the first time and it was good. The second time I didn’t have buttermilk or apples so I subbed apple sauce and raisins. My only critique of this recipe is that I do think it needs a tad more cinnamon and salt, but that is just my personal preference. For a breakfast on the go it’s perfect. Nice and moist too!
These had no flavor. Moist. Will not be making again.
I liked these. They weren’t the greatest of all time thus no five star rating. I added cinnamon which added to the flavor.
not very sweet, but is moist
For those limiting sugar, this is a fine muffin recipe. All I needed was half a reasonably sized carrot.