Recipe For Healthy Muffins

Finding a muffin recipe that is both healthy for your toddler and great tasting may not always be the easiest challenge.  The following apple cinnamon muffin recipe has lots of healthy ingredients like apples, cinnamon and rolled oats.

Apple & Cinnamon Muffins

Ingredients:

1 cup quick-cooking rolled oats
1 egg
1 cup buttermilk
1 apple
1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400F.  Combine oats and buttermilk in a medium mixing bowl and stir to moisten oats, set aside.  Peel the apple and cut into small pieces (with core removed).  In a separate mixing bowl add eggs, brown sugar and oil and mix with an electric mixer on low speed until smooth.  Add the oat mixture to the egg mixture and mix until blended together well.  Now add flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.  Use a mixing spoon to mix ingredients just until the dry ingredients are mixed in (don't over beat).  Stir in the apple.  Pour into greased muffin cups.  In a separate, small bowl mix together the granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon, then sprinkle this mixture over the batter.  Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a fork inserted into the middle of a muffin comes out clean.