These Apple Oat Muffins are the perfect sweet snack or breakfast made with whole grain oats, sweet apples, and fragrant cinnamon and nutmeg!
It’s apple season and these Apple Oat Muffins are the perfect way to enjoy all the market-fresh apples! I love making these for my kids’ back-to-school lunches and breakfasts for busy school mornings and I just know your family is going to love them as much as ours does! If you’ve been a follower of The Busy Baker for any length of time you probably have heard that I’ve created a No Fail Muffin Baking Course with all my favourite tips and tricks and muffin-baking secrets to get your homemade muffins into tip top shape! I’ll share a few of these tips later on in this post below but if you want in on this FREE email series, SIGN UP NOW. I’ve made SO many muffin-baking mistakes over the years and I’m dying to share all my secrets with you so you can make your own muffins at home!
Ingredients for Apple Oat Muffins
- flour
- rolled oats
- granulated sugar
- baking powder
- baking soda
- salt
- cinnamon
- nutmeg
- cloves
- apples
- milk
- vegetable oil
- eggs
- vanilla extract
How to make the perfect Apple Oat Muffins
Time needed: 30 minutes
- Don’t over-mix the batter!
This is my BEST TIP for the perfect fluffy muffins every single time! If you’re left with muffins that are closer in texture to hockey pucks, it’s almost certainly because you mixed the batter too vigorously and for too long. Be gentle with the batter once you add the dry ingredients and stir only until the flour just barely disappears. Use a wooden spoon or silicone spatula and mix by hand to avoid over-mixing. Making muffins with a stand mixer or a hand mixer almost ALWAYS ensures you’ll over-mix, so making them by hand is the way to go!!
- Chop your apples and add them to the dry ingredients.
Adding any add-ins to your muffins with the dry ingredients helps keep them evenly distributed throughout the batter while baking so they don’t sink to the bottom of the muffins.
- Don’t forget the spices!
Adding ground cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves gives these muffins such a delicious warm flavour!
- Bake quickly!
The leavening agent in muffins is usually baking powder (sometimes with baking soda), which acts quickly as soon as the liquid and dry ingredients come together. To get fluffy muffins with the nice dome shape on top, get them in the oven as fast as you can after mixing.
- Let them cool!
No one likes a gummy muffin that’s underdone on the inside. Let the muffins cool until they’re almost room temperature before digging in, since they continue baking on the inside even after they’ve been removed from the oven.
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How long do the Apple Oat Muffins need to bake?
Bake the muffins for about 18-22 minutes or until the tops have lost their shine and a toothpick inserted into one of the muffins comes out clean.
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I hope you love these muffins as much as we do! Let me know in the comments below, what’s your favourite muffin recipe? I’d love to know!
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Apple Oat Muffins
Recipe: Equipment
- muffin tins
Recipe: Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda “
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 cup chopped apples (plus a few extra for sprinkling on top, optional)
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Recipe: Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and prepare muffin tins with paper liners (for 18 muffins).
- Add the flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and apples to a large bowl and mix well to combine.
- In a glass measuring cup, measure out the milk and oil, adding the eggs and vanilla, and whisking together with a fork to combine the wet ingredients.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir gently with a silicone spatula just until combined and no streaks of flour remain.
- Divide the batter between the prepared muffin cups (this recipe makes about 18 muffins), filling them only 2/3 to 3/4 full. Add a few apple pieces to the top, if you wish.
- Bake the muffins at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 18-22 minutes, or until the tops have lost their shine and a toothpick inserted into one of the muffins comes out clean.
- Cool completely before enjoying.
Recipe: Notes
Recipe: Nutrition
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
I’m going to try these gluten and dairy free, I’ll let you know how I go. 😬
Yes, please, we can’t wait to hear about the replacements you used and how it all worked out for you!
These muffins are delicious, and very easy to make. I didn’t peel the apple, and got 14 muffins in total. Thanks for a great recipe!
these were delicious, I am going to try a gluten free version but either way they were easy to make and tasted amazing
As an add in would you suggest date pieces or pecans if so how many cups?
Sure! Both these options sound great. You can add up to 3/4 c of either.