Healthy Apple Cinnamon Muffins (Made in the Blender!)
on Nov 01, 2017, Updated May 07, 2024
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Healthy Apple Cinnamon Muffins that are made in the blender! This easy muffin recipe is made with whole grain oats, applesauce, maple syrup, and other wholesome ingredients. Enjoy this sweet and simple breakfast!
Homemade Applesauce Cinnamon Blender Muffins
I love me some blender muffins and I’m so excited to share this super healthy apple cinnamon blender muffin recipe with you today. It is AWESOME! And it’s super-duper easy because the blender does all of the work for you. This recipe is made without traditional flour and is instead made with whole grain oats that you process in your blender until they make an oat flour. A little bit of applesauce, some maple syrup, and a few other ingredients really make these muffins simple and healthy. Just toss it all in the blender and let it go. Bake for 15 minutes and you’re done.
Because this recipe is so simple, it is the perfect recipe to make with your little kitchen helpers. They can help measure and dump things into the blender and then push the buttons as needed (my kids love helping use my blender!). And before you know it, you’ll have super healthy apple cinnamon muffins that make a great snack, breakfast on the go, or side to your favorite soup or chili.
We love these muffins and know you will too.
Tips and Tricks for Making Healthy Apple Cinnamon Muffins:
- One more reason to love your blender! I have a refurbished Blendtec and have loved it for almost 4 years now.
- No applesauce? No worry! If you have a good blender, you can just throw in about 8 ounces of apple (cored) and blend them up before you blend up the oats. I did that a few times and it worked great. I left the skins on, too.
- These aren’t super sweet muffins (and I’m ok with that). If you want a sweeter muffin, you can use vanilla Greek yogurt or add an additional 1/4 to 1/2 cup or brown sugar.
- You can change up the flavor a bit by subbing the cinnamon for apple pie spice. Delicious!
- These muffins freeze great, just FYI. You can use them for healthy breakfasts, easy snacks, or as a side to your favorite healthy lentil chili, Healthy Alphabet Soup (healthy, meatless 30-minute meal), or Tortellini Soup with Spinach (also a healthy, meatless 30-minute meal).
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Healthy Apple Cinnamon Muffins (made in the blender!)
Ingredients
- 2 cups rolled oats, gluten free if needed
- 1 cup applesauce
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt, whole milk or 2% yogurt
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and spray a 12-cup muffin tin with cooking spray.
- In the jar of your blender, add the oats. Add the lid and process until the oats look like flour, 1-3 minutes.
- Add the applesauce, eggs, Greek yogurt, maple syrup, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla, salt, and cinnamon to the jar of the blender and blend until smooth, 30 seconds to 2 minutes.
- Pour muffin batter into the prepared pans.
- Bake until the muffins spring back slightly when touched and toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 15 minutes.
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Bada-bing bada-boom, healthy muffins with very little dishes. I can’t wait for you to try these. Enjoy from my kitchen to yours.
How would you adjust the bake time for mini muffins? Thank you!
It’ll be about half the time. You’ll want to check them though of course. When the muffin tops springs back when lightly touched, you know they are done (if they aren’t, it’ll leave an indent on the top!). Happy baking Lindsay!
I have never posted a comment about a recipe before. But I have to say these are so so so easy, yummy (for me and my toddler) and will forever be in my vault of recipes. I did use vanilla Greek yogurt but that is the only change I did. I’m constantly looking for healthy, easy, and tasty muffin recipes and this checked all the boxes.
I’m honored that we are your first comment! So glad you liked the muffins.
Yummm! These are a favourite at my house. I brought them to a bake sale once they were a hit. I made a cinnamon glaze to go on them as well.
I made a cinnamon glaze to put on them. I make them like every week. My favourite!
That sounds so good! I’d love to know what you put in your glaze!
I only had nonfat Greek yogurt but added in a heaping tablespoon of gingerbread almond butter and some fresh diced apple chunks-DELISH. And so easy to freeze!
That sounds SO good! Thank you for sharing the tips and tricks with us, I so appreciate that!
I followed accordingly but after baking for 20 min++ the muffins still weren’t cooked.They were very wet.pls tell me what went wrong
Umm…pumpkin pie spice?? Not in the ingredients but in instructions. I will eyeball it.
Good eye, it’s supposed to say cinnamon. You can sub the cinnamon for PPS or even apple pie spice with great results though.
Going to make them now. I like your recipes. Thank you for sharing,
Enjoy Connie!
Hi! I just stumbled across your blog…I am so excited to try your recipes! Could I use a food processor in place of a blender?
Yes ma’am as long as it’s a fairly big one!
Thank you! Excited to try them:).
P.S. I made the pumpkin energy oatmeal bites this morning and they were a huge hit with my daughters…a great quick breakfast with protein! Thank you for sharing!
Yum! I do love a good muffin in the morning, and I’m sure I’d love it even more if it came together so quickly in a blender! haha. Thanks for sharing!