Chocolate Oatmeal Walnut Muffins Recipes

CHOCOLATE OATMEAL WALNUT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F
• Grease or line muffin cups (2-1/2-inches in diameter) with paper bake cups.
• Stir together oats and buttermilk in small bowl; let stand 20 minutes.
• Stir together oil, sugar, egg and vanilla in large bowl.
• Add oats mixture, stirring well.
• Stir together flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
• Add to oats mixture, blending until moistened.
• Stir in nuts.
• Fill muffin cups 2/3 full with batter.
• Bake 16 to 18 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Remove from pan to wire rack.
• Sprinkle muffin tops with powdered sugar, if desired.
• Serve warm or cool.

OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS

Steps:

• Combine oats and milk and allow to stand for 15 minutes. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C). Grease each cup of one 12-cup muffin tin.
• Stir egg, oil, 1/2 cup of the brown sugar, chocolate chips and 1/2 cup of the pecans into the oat and milk mixture.
• Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add oat mixture to flour mixture, stirring until just moist. Fill each cup of one 12-cup muffin tin 2/3 full. Sprinkle tops with the remaining brown sugar and pecans.
• Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 20 to 25 minutes.

OATMEAL WALNUT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Place paper liners in each of 12 muffin cups.
• Whisk eggs well, then whisk in oil, oatmeal and vanilla.
• In another bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder and baking soda until there are no more lumps of brown sugar. Add walnuts and toss to coat.
• Add liquid mixture and fold in, just until the dry ingredients are moistened.
• Spoon into muffin cups, filling 3/4 full. An ice cream scoop works well for this. You may have enough batter for a 13th muffin.
• Bake 18 - 20 minutes or until they test done. Allow to cool 10 minutes in the muffin pan, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
• These freeze well.