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Delicious and Healthy Apple Muffins filled with oats, bran, and cinnamon. These muffins are not only simple, but are great for breakfast and after-school snacks.
Muffins make for a great breakfast or snack, and we especially love muffins with a hint of fruit! Some of our favorites include Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins and Banana Crumb Muffins.
Apple bran Muffins
Jenn here from Clean and Scentsible, and I’m so excited to be here today on Kristyn’s amazing blog sharing one of our favorite breakfast recipes for Healthy Apple Muffins.
We’ve always loved muffins (like Banana Muffins and Blueberry Muffins), and today’s recipe is one the family loves because they’re filled with apple, oats and bran.
We always have apples on hand, which means we are always up for making these muffins. They are more on the healthy side and don’t have much sugar, but also include honey and apple pie spice which adds the perfect amount of sweetness. The kids like to eat them plain or topped off with butter or honey. They aren’t only great for breakfast, but for an after-school snack as well.
How to Make Healthy Apple Muffins
Making these muffins takes a bit of time, but they are also very simple. Begin by preheating the oven and adding liners to your muffin tin.
BATTER. Mix the eggs, oil, milk, honey, yogurt, and vanilla together in a large mixing bowl until well blended. Add 1 cup of the rolled oats and the crushed bran. Let soak for 10 minutes.
In another bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, apple pie spice (or cinnamon), and salt. Add the wet ingredients in and mix until blended {the batter will be quite thick}. Stir in the grated apple.
BAKE. Scoop the batter into the muffin tin and fill up almost to the top (they don’t rise too much). Mix brown sugar and the remaining oats together and sprinkle on top. Bake for 18-22 minutes {until a toothpick inserted into the center of the muffin comes out clean}.
We like to serve these warm with butter, jam or honey.
recipe TIPS AND STORING info
Which apples are best for muffins? Really, this is more a preference thing, but there are some apples that are better for baking. We always use Granny Smith for this muffin recipe, but other favorites include:
- Fuji Apples
- Golden Delicious Apples
- Pinata Apples
To store the muffins, we like to place them (completely cooled) in a Ziploc bag or air-tight container and keep them in the fridge for up to a week. We like them best when they are warm, so to reheat, we typically pop them in the microwave for just about 20 seconds. These are great for busy breakfasts or running out the door on the way to soccer practice.
To FREEZE, place the muffins in a freezer-safe Ziploc bag or air-tight container and place in the freezer for up to 2 months. We typically let them thaw in the fridge overnight and reheat them before serving.
These apple oat muffins are the perfect snack. Enjoy them warm, and with a little honey and you’ll agree. 🙂
For more healthy breakfast recipes, check out:
Healthy Apple Muffin Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 2/3 cup honey
- 1/4 cup plain yogurt or vanilla yogurt
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup rolled oats + 3 tbsp for topping (quick or old fashioned)
- 1 1/4 cup crushed bran cereal
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 large Granny Smith apple peeled and coarsely grated
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375F and line your muffin tin with paper liners.
- Mix the eggs, oil, milk, honey, yogurt, and vanilla together in a large mixing bowl until well blended. Add 1 cup of the rolled oats and the crushed bran. Let soak for 10 minutes.
- In another bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Add the wet ingredients in and mix until blended {the batter will be quite thick}. Stir in the grated apple.
- Scoop the batter into the muffin tin and fill up almost to the top {they rise very little}.
- Mix brown sugar and the remaining oats together and sprinkle on top.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes {until a toothpick inserted into the center of the muffin comes out clean}. Makes 16.
- Serve warm with butter or jam. We just refrigerate these and warm them up in the microwave for 10-20 seconds in the morning.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
These muffins are super moist and delicious. They make a great breakfast, especially on busy mornings.
GREAT RECIPE! LOVE IT!
Not sure about the “healthy” part though as it contains sugars, flour, and lactose, which is a no go for many people nowadays. It’s also got 44% of the daily saturated fats. I suggest advertising this as very tasty, but not necessarily as very healthy. The ingredients are easy to replace though to make a version that’s avoids gluten, sugar, lactose, and cholesterol issues.
Love these apple bran muffins. Making them agsin, cause my husband lives them as well
These are so good! I wasn’t sure how my kids would feel about them but they ended up devouring the whole batch in a couple days. I’ve made them a few times now!
I’m going to try these…can I use oat bran instead of crushed bran cereal?
I personally haven’t tried, but I am sure you could. It might turn out a little different though in texture.
Love this RECIPE can thiS be done with bananas?
Sure could 🙂 Enjoy!!
These are delicious! They’re moist and just the right amount of sweet. I doubled the batch so I could freeze half for later, and I’M so glad I did! Only change I made was I used coconut oil instead of vegetable oil
Thank you for sharing what you did! Great idea about freezing half!
Definitely a good snack to have on hand. I like to keep them frozen to throw in my kids lunch boxes.
A great way to start the year with these healthy tasting muffins. Very satisfying!
Delicious- All my favorites in one muffin! Great recipe, very easy to follow!
Quick question what can you use inpalce of the Bran cereal?
I would say oats (which are already in the recipe) or cream of wheat, using whole wheat flour…I’ve never left it out & I’m not sure if you are because of allergies, but google has lots of suggestions 😉
I used digestive bran instead of crushed bran cereal. Worked perfectly.
I also found that honey was very expensive so I swapped out half for brown sugar which is cheaper (although not exactly as healthy).