Random Question: Do You Have a Favorite Muffin Recipe?

I love Deb’s perfect blueberry muffins, but they’re more sometimes food in our house.

If you’re looking for a good alternative, overnight oats is quick and easy and can be made ahead of time.

Yes! Banana oat muffins. 1 ripe banana, 1 cup oats, 1 egg, 1 spoonful coconut oil, 1 t baking powder OR 1/2 t baking soda, a pinch of salt. Obviously you can increase the yield as you want! From that base the variations are endless. For example:
– Sub half the banana for pumpkin and add a splash of maple syrup plus whatever spices you prefer.
– Sub peanut or almond butter for the coconut oil
-Add chocolate chips
– Add 1 T cocoa powder per banana, plus a bit of maple syrup and vanilla
– Raspberries ?
– Blueberries and cardamom
– Coconut flakes and well drained chopped pineapple
– 1/2 cup spinach per banana (my kids call these “Hulk muffins”)
Etc.

Yum! These all sound delicious. Definitely want to try the apple cider muffins. King Arthur Flour’s oat muffins are the go to muffins for my family: https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/oat-muffins-recipe

The bran muffins from La Brea Bakery are our favorite. They may seem a little fussy, with the toasted bran and pureed raisins, but it is truly worth it — they are DELICIOUS. Here’s the recipe: https://www.davidlebovitz.com/nancy-silvertons-bran-muffins/

…and here is what I do a little differently:

1) I toast the bran in a dry pan on top of the stove, because I find it quicker and easier. When it smells roasty-toasty, it’s ready.
2) I sprinkle coarse/decorating sugar on top (demerara or something like this https://shop.kingarthurflour.com/items/sparkling-white-sugar-15-oz? ) of the muffins before they go in the oven, for a little extra sparkle, crunch, and excitement.

Can’t wait to try some of these! My kids ask for these “green muffins” all the time. Best part—you mix them in the blender.
https://joyfoodsunshine.com/spinach-banana-muffins/

Am I the only one who doesn’t like sugar on top of their muffins?
I don’t like a crunchy top!! Soft, soft soft please!

I love muffins, but with a 3-year-old and 1-year-old many recipes don’t work well for us either in terms of allergens or time. These two recipes (from Laura Morton RDN) I can whip up in the morning and are safe to go to school with them:
Cozy Sweet Potato Muffins – http://www.mortonsgrove.com/recipes
One-Bowl Banana (Chocolate Chip) Muffins – https://www.instagram.com/p/BpZnH3xH1cJ/

I love the amusingly-named Increased Nutrition Muffins from Swistle. A longer and more descriptive name would be Whole Wheat-Banana-Pumpkin-Peanut Butter-Flax-Chocolate Chip-Walnut Muffins. Many opportunities for substitutions: applesauce instead of pumpkin, sunbutter instead of peanut butter, pepitas instead of walnuts, bran or oatmeal instead of flaxseed meal etc. You can also add pumpkin spice <3

I really like these zucchini pineapple crumble top muffins: https://bakincareofbusiness.com/zucchini-pineapple-crumble-top-muffins/
The crumble top is super easy to make but feels like you’re eating a fancy bakery muffin, plus both fruits and veggies. Also works just as well with whole wheat flour instead of all purpose.
If you’re ok baking with yeast, these monkey muffins are really fun too, they taste like an inside out cinnamon roll:
https://bakincareofbusiness.com/monkey-muffins/

Not a muffin, but a healthy grab-and-go breakfast I’ve made many times are the granola cluster cookies from Bon Appetit: https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/granola-cluster-cookies
They are like granola meets meringue and are pretty easy to put together. I reduce the sugar to 1/2 cup (or even less) with success and they are packed with nuts, seeds, and oats!

I love this recipe for when I have a few over ripe bananas left at the end of the week. https://www.bakerita.com/paleo-banana-nut-muffins/
I add a few things to the recipe: shredded coconut (1/2 cup), ground flax (1-2 tbsp), hemp hearts (1 tbsp) and pecans along with the walnuts.
They stay moist for a week if kept in an air tight container, and with healthier (less cake-like) ingredients, I don’t feel guilty grabbing one as I’m headed out the door for breakfast.

Deb perfect blueberry muffins are my fave indulgence

Run Fast. Cook Slow. “Superhero muffins” are my go-to for healthier muffins. They’re made with almond flour and oats, fruits and veggies and are filling and delish.

this is my absolute go to – https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/rhubarb-crumble-muffins. i always double the fruit and halve the sugar and have tried this with any and all possible fruit and fruit combos (strawberry rhubarb is the winner) and it has turned out perfect time and time again

Once a week I wake up early to make muffins for my girls (3&5). A classic fav in our house are the Sweet Spinach muffins from Super Healthy Kids –

https://www.superhealthykids.com/recipes/sweet-spinach-muffins/

So good!

Not muffins, per se, but I started making “two ingredient” cookies in January with oats and bananas mashed together then baked. That base has evolved into some of my favorite one bowl recipes ever! I start with oats and bananas then throw in whatever I’m feeling like. Last week it was dried apricots, mac nuts, and coconut. Last night was cacao, dried cherries, and walnuts. Tonight I’m gonna go for that classic oatmeal raisin cookie vibe.

I now blend the oats up a little before mixing them in and use about a tablespoon of baking powder, sometimes a splash of vanilla, and usually some dash of spice. They’re not very sweet, which is why they remind me of muffins. But they’re very healthy and they hit the spot. I’ve been working on my sweet tooth, but if you’re craving something actually sweet, I’d add date syrup or a nice sweetener. The trick is managed expectations (we’re talking bananas and oats here) and a hot cup of milky tea.

Deb’s Blueberry Muffins on Smitten Kitchen are a weekly fav here – often made with frozen raspberries instead and no sugar topping

Other weekly fav is Simply Recipes Oatmeal Strawberry – https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/strawberry_oatmeal_muffins/

And apple carrot craisin muffins from Cookie and Kate
https://cookieandkate.com/apple-carrot-muffins-recipe/

I am about the fifth person to say so, but the Superhero Muffins from Run Fast, Eat Slow are delicious! SO filling and chock-ful of nutritious ingredients.

When we’re running low on time and needing a slightly sweeter treat this is our go-to recipe from Pinch of Yum: https://pinchofyum.com/favorite-pumpkin-muffins How brilliant to use oats as a base?! We just grind them up in the vitamix and add the rest of the ingredients. Easy clean up! This winter I made a few dozen of them to freeze ahead of time for easy one-handed food once our baby arrived. Per our plan, my husband brought a dozen to the hospital with us so I would have some delicious and comforting food to eat after giving birth, but he ended up being so excited by the delivery (and as he says “so impressed by my incredible wife who at 9+months pregnant kept making these delicious muffins!”) that he kept offering them to our midwife, doula and all of the nurses and hospital staff who came by, that by the time I could eat, there were none left! All was well though, because a friend brought a giant McDonalds strawberry milkshake which was just sugary and fatty enough to fill my soul after delivering our 8+ lb son! :)

As someone who eats mostly paleo type foods I really like anything from Paleo Running Momma. Her recipes always work and even the more conventional eaters in our home love eating them too. I made the following and froze them – pulling one out everyday to bring to work as a little 3pm treat.

Apple Crumb Muffins
https://www.paleorunningmomma.com/paleo-apple-muffins-crumb-top/

Chocolate Banana Tahini Muffins
https://www.paleorunningmomma.com/chocolate-banana-muffins-tahini-paleo/

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Muffins
https://www.paleorunningmomma.com/chocolate-chip-zucchini-muffins-paleo/