These sweet oat muffins are absolutely bursting with berries. My son Bobby tried them and couldn’t stop raving. He pointed out to me that I’d used two of the super foods he tries to eat as often as possible. Turns out oats and blueberries are just about the best things for you. Oats have been found to lower your chance of heart disease, and because they are packed with fiber, they help regulate blood glucose levels. If that wasn’t enough for me, he informed his mama that blueberries were high in antioxidants, which also help to keep you healthy. My goodness, and here I was just thinking I’d created a tasty muffin. Turns out I’d devised a super muffin!
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 extra-large eggs
- ½ cup packed light brown sugar
- ¼ cup canola or safflower oil
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ½ cup old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen, thawed
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 375 °F. Lightly grease a 12-cup muffin tin with cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and baking soda. In a separate bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, eggs, brown sugar, oil, and vanilla. Add the buttermilk mixture and the oats to the flour mixture and stir until just combined. Gently fold in the blueberries.
- Scrape the batter into the prepared muffin tin, filling the cups three-quarters full. Bake for 15 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean (watch out for blueberries). Let the muffins cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then remove them and place on â¨a wire rack to cool.
Makes 12 muffins
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