Oatmeal Banana Apple Muffins

If you haven't noticed, I've been on a muffin kick lately. They are so yummy to me that I can't resist a good recipe. Even though I don't like banana's I put so little in the muffin that the taste isn't prominent. It doesn't scream banana. Of course you probably could make it scream banana if you wanted. How would I know how you wanted to torture your muffins?

I didn't take any pictures of how I made these because I am babysitting a friends son who is only a few weeks older than my youngest so I didn't have a lot of time to stop and snap pictures. I'm not sure what it is about cooking but the kids were playing so well alone and the moment I started getting things out they came rushing to the kitchen wanting to help. I had six little hands helping me on this one. They were excited to get involved and I was impressed by the little boy and his love to stir. I could tell his mom and grandma cooked a lot with him.

They were really good, healthy cupcakes and I had three little mouths who would back me up on that.

Oatmeal Banana Apple Muffins
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup oatmeal
1 cup white or wheat flour (I opted for wheat)
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Mix the dry ingredients together.

2 eggs
4 tablespoons oil
6 tablespoons sugar (I used honey)

In another bowl mix together eggs, oil, and sugar.

Combine the dry and wet ingredients together and fold in
2/3 cup milk

When the flour is almost incorporated mix in
1 cup mashed bananas (I just used one banana)
1 cup applesauce

Fold together until fruit is incorporated.

Bake at 350 degrees for 18-22 minutes or until muffins are golden brown on top.

Dark Chocolate Chunk Muffins

These looked so fantastic when I saw them on pinterest. I thought it would be a change up for my husband in the mornings. Typically I make muffins, freeze a few in a bag and when he doesn't have time for his shake I pull a bag out and toss it in his lunch bag. He's usually late so something fast and easy is a must in our house.

This is an interesting recipe because of a few things, it doesn't use flour and you put everything in a food processor. Different. Start with some oats.

Add some unsweetened cocoa.

Then some vanilla

Some unsweetened applesauce. This is my homemade variety, yummy.

 Here it is again because you can't have enough pictures of homemade applesauce.

 Some plain yogurt.

I used honey as a sweetener. It's all I really have in terms of healthy sweeteners.

Some vinegar because I couldn't find my cream of tartar and I wasn't going to search through the ridiculously cluttered spice shelf.

 Some hot water.

The eggs were supposed to come earlier but I forgot them. Thankfully I remembered. If you can't tell I already blended the ingredients before saying "I forgot the eggs!" and then my daughter wanted to know what was wrong.

Just throw the chocolate chips in with the batter in the food processor because who needs to make another dish dirty? Especially when you wash yours by hand.

Here they are all cooked. I know they looked burned. I added peanut chips and white chocolate chips to the top.

Up close and personal. On a side note, I didn't care for that movie. I know they look burned but I couldn't get them to be done in the middle.

The batter was really thin, I think I'll cut down on the water.

Ingredients:
1 3/4 cup oats
3 eggs
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup plain yogurt
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar or 1 1/2 Tablespoon vinegar
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup hot water (I cut down the amount of water than what I used in mine, you're welcome to add   more if you need to.)
1/4 cup honey
1/2 cup chocolate chips (you can use white or peanut butter ones as well)

Makes around 24.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Blend everything except the chocolate chips in a blender or food processor until oats are ground and the mixture is smooth. Put half of the chocolate chips in with the batter. Fill greased muffin tin 3/4 full of batter. Bake for eight minutes and add chocolate chips to the top of the muffin. Bake for another 8-10 minutes or until muffins are done. Check with a toothpick, when it comes out clean they're done.