Apple Oatmeal Muffins

Are the kids refusing oatmeal?  Here's a great way to make oatmeal into a muffin that they will eat.  Once you get the basics down for making muffins there's nothing that you can't do with them. 

The two rules are:
1. Dry ingredients and wet ingredients are kept separate until the end.
2. Do NOT over mix.

When I was first learning how to make muffins I mixed so little for fear of over-mixing that often times there was a pile of dry flour at the bottom of the bowl! Now I understand that over-mixing simply means don't mix the muffins like you would beat cake batter.  Just mix the dry and wet until everything is blended.

Here's what we did:

Dry

2 cups of flour (unbleached)

1 cup of oatmeal (old fashioned)

1/2 cup of brown sugar

2 tsp of cinnamon 

2 tsp of baking powder

1 tsp of baking soda

2 medium apples (peeled and chopped into pieces)

Wet

1 cup of milk

3/4 cup of oil

1/2 cup of maple syrup

1 egg

Mix up the dry ingredients and then in a separate bowl mix up the wet ingredients. Then mix them together!  Kaela and I use the measuring cup as the utensil for spooning the mixture into the muffin pan for easier clean-up.   Note: You can use liners or spray the muffin pan with oil to prevent sticking before you put in the muffin mixture.

Bake for 20 minutes @ 400 degrees or until golden.  Let cool (hot muffins do not taste good) and eat!  Holdable apple oatmeal to go!