Muffins - Healthy Chocolate Chips

By 4brennans

Ingredients

• 1 cup oats (I use old-fashioned oats)
• 1 cup milk (skim, soy, whatever you have)
• 1 cup whole wheat flour (I use white whole wheat flour)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup butter, softened (or sub 1/4 cup oil or 1/4 cup applesauce)
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Details

Servings 12
Preparation time 15mins
Cooking time 30mins
Adapted from familyfoodonthetable.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350.
Line a muffin tin with muffin liners and spray with cooking spray.
Combine oats and milk and let those soak while you prepare the rest of the recipe, to soften the oats.
In a large bowl, whisk together the egg and brown sugar until smooth and caramel colored.
Add vanilla and butter and whisk to combine. You may have small pieces of butter in the mixture, which is totally fine. (See notes.)
Add flour, oat-milk mixture, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Stir until well combined but don’t over mix.
Fold in the chocolate chips.
Distribute the batter between the muffin tins - they will be about 2/3rds full.
Bake for 15-18 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.