Recipe: Yummy Oatmeal and Fruit Blender Muffins

Oatmeal and Fruit Blender Muffins. Great recipe for Oatmeal and Fruit Blender Muffins. The original recipe for this calls for using some unsweetened applesauce, but I had some spotty bananas lying on my counter, so I switched it up (pictured up top with bananas). This muffin recipe is versatile and can work with either flavor.

Get creative with YOUR favorite flavorings and mix-ins! Rather than refined flours, we're using rolled oats as the main ingredient for all of these flourless blender muffins recipes. Place the all ingredients but the mix-ins in a blender or the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade: oats, bananas, eggs, Greek yogurt, honey, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla extract, and salt. You can cook Oatmeal and Fruit Blender Muffins using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Oatmeal and Fruit Blender Muffins

1. Prepare of old fashioned rolled oats.
2. Prepare of unsweetened applesauce or 3 bananas.
3. Prepare of large eggs.
4. Prepare of honey or maple syrup.
5. It's of milk (any kind).
6. Prepare of ground cinnamon.
7. It's of baking powder.
8. It's of baking soda.
9. Prepare of vanilla extract.
10. You need of salt.
11. You need of finely chopped nuts of choice.
12. Prepare of Additional oats, optional for topping.

The recipe for these healthy banana oatmeal muffins couldn't be easier. Add the oats to the jug of a blender and whizz them up first. This step is optional but makes more of an oat flour which means a softer muffin. Then add the rest of the ingredients and whizz until combined.

Oatmeal and Fruit Blender Muffins step by step

1. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Liberally grease a 12 count muffin tin pan or line with parchment liners and set it aside. These muffins are more prone to sticking than your average muffin, so if using liners, parchment ones are highly recommended over paper liners..
2. Start by placing the oats into the blender and grinding them into oat flour. It will only take a minute or so..
3. After that, add all the remaining ingredients EXCEPT for the nuts and blend until thoroughly combined. You may have to stop and scrape down the sides once or twice..
4. If you have a high power blender, then you can add the nuts in and blend for about 30 seconds at the end. Mine isn't high power, so I chop the nuts and just stir them in with a rubber spatula..
5. Pour into the prepared muffin tins. If you'd like, then you can sprinkle some extra oats over the tops..
6. Bake for 13-15 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into one of the center muffins comes out clean..
7. Let them cool in the pan on a wire rack for about 5 or so minutes, then remove them from the pan and place them on the wire rack to cool completely..
8. Store them in an airtight container for up to 4 days..

In the jar of your blender, add the oats. To make sure berries or fruit stay evenly distributed throughout the batter, add to the dry ingredients and mix until coated before adding the liquid ingredients. Want to customize your healthy oatmeal muffins? You can also customize the spices: add an extra teaspoon of cinnamon, some nutmeg, or even pumpkin pie spice. Substituted the oil with applesauce and half the white sugar with brown sugar.