Healthy Mini Pumpkin Oat Chocolate Chip Muffins
Home-made, and not overly sweet, and addicting! Enjoy the flavors of pumpkin pie in muffin form, but healthier. The chocolate chips on top add that chocolate crave factor! Yum!
Servings: 36 mini
Calories:
Ingredients
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup old-fashioned oats add 1/2 more cup if you want it more oat-ier
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1½ cups canned pumpkin puree
- 3 tablespoons coconut oil or canola oil
- ¼ cup vanilla almond milk or whatever milk you prefer
- 2 large eggs or 1 whole egg and 1 egg white
- ¼ to 1/2 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips for tops of muffins only
- Optional additions: dark chocolate chips raisins, pecans, walnuts, dried cranberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Using mini muffin pan, spray with non-stick spray.
- Combine flours, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice in a large bowl; then stir in oats, brown sugar.
- In a medium bowl, combine eggs, oil, milk and pumpkin, blending well.
- Stir pumpkin mixture into dry ingredients until just moist.
- Fill muffin tins with batter, then sprinkle tops with mini chocolate chips, then bake for 8-10 minutes, until tops spring back when lightly touched.
Notes
- You could use all-purpose white flour or all whole wheat flour if you prefer. All whole wheat will make the muffins more dense, but healthier - fyi.
- Don't overmix muffins, to avoid forming glutens, and and end result of tough muffins.
- Leave the chocolate chips off if you don't want the extra calories or use sugar-free.