These healthy Applesauce Muffins are delicious, freezer friendly, and the perfect filling snack or breakfast. They’re made with whole grain oats, unsweetened applesauce, and whole wheat flour.
Looking for more muffin recipes? Try these Cranberry Orange Muffins, Carrot Muffins, Blueberry Muffins, or Chocolate Chip Zucchini Muffins.
Make Batter: In a medium bowl, stir together the oats, applesauce, milk, egg, vanilla, butter and sugar.
Add Dry Ingredients: In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, and cranberries or raisins. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients then pour in the applesauce mixture. Stir just until combined.
Bake: Spoon batter evenly into the muffin cups then bake for 15-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Don’t over-bake or the muffins will be dry.
Enjoy or Freeze: Remove to a cooling rack then cool oatmeal applesauce muffins completely before freezing.
To Store: Keep at room temperature, in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
To Freeze: Allow to cool completely then place in a freezer safe bag and freeze for up to 3 months.
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Original recipe adapted from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe.
I originally shared this recipe December 2015. Updated July 2019 and January 2024.
]]>This soft and moist Cranberry Orange Muffins recipe is topped with a delicious orange glaze, and bursting with flavor!
Want to try more muffin recipes? Try these Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins, Healthy Banana Muffins, Snickerdoodle Muffins, or Lemon Raspberry Muffins!
Dry Ingredients: Stir together sugar and orange zest. Add flour, salt, and baking powder.
Wet ingredients: In a separate bowl, stir together buttermilk, oil, eggs, orange juice, and vanilla.
Combine wet and dry ingredients, stirring just until mixed. Fold in halved cranberries.
Bake: Spoon batter into prepared muffin pan and bake at 350 degrees F for 20-26 minutes.
Optional Glaze: Combine powdered sugar, orange juice, and orange zest. Drizzle over baked muffins.
To Freeze: Allow muffins to cool completely, then place in an airtight container of freezer bag for up to 3 months. Thaw at room temperature, or rewarm in the microwave for a few seconds.
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This post was originally published November 2021. Updated November 2023.
]]>This Healthy Pumpkin Muffins recipe is made with whole grains, less butter and sugar, and only 160 calories each! They taste just like the bakery and are freezer friendly!
Looking for more pumpkin recipes? Try my Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread, Classic Pumpkin Roll, or Pumpkin French Toast!
Combine dry ingredients: flour, cornstarch, pumpkin spice, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
Mix wet ingredients in a separate bowl: eggs, honey, butter, and canned pumpkin puree (or homemade pumpkin puree). Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients then pour the wet mixture in.
Stir batter together, being careful not to over-mix it, and then add chocolate chips (optional). Divide batter between the muffin cups.
Bake healthy pumpkin muffins at 350 degrees F for about 15-20 minutes. Enjoy!
To Freeze: Allow healthy pumpkin muffins to cool completely, then place them in a freezer safe container and freeze for up to 3 months.
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Recipe inspired by 100 Days of Real Food.
I originally shared this recipe October 2015. Updated September 2018, October 2021 and September 2023.
]]>This easy Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins recipe is tender and flavorful with a sweet cream cheese filling! Better than the bakery and one of my favorite pumpkin recipes of all time!
Want more pumpkin recipes? Try Pumpkin Cake, Pumpkin Pancakes, Healthy Pumpkin Muffins, Pumpkin Mug Cake, or Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread!
If I could choose just one bakery item to make on repeat during the fall, it would be Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins. Everyone goes crazy for them, and they have the perfect blend of spices mixed with the sweet cream cheese filling.
Mix Cream Cheese Filling: Combine the cream cheese and powdered sugar and mix well until smooth. Refrigerate while you make the muffins.
Make Muffin Batter: Combine flour, spices, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Stir and set aside. In a separate large bowl, combine the eggs, oil, sugar, and pumpkin purée. Mix until well combined. Add to the dry ingredients and mix until just incorporated.
Streusel Topping: Add the streusel topping ingredients to a bowl and mix using a pastry blender or fork, until crumbly.
Bake: Fill each muffin cup with a heaping tablespoon of batter then place a heaping teaspoon of cream cheese filling into the center of each muffin cup. Add additional muffin batter until the cups are ¾ way full. Sprinkle crumb topping over the top of each. Bake muffins for 18-20 minutes. Remove from muffin pan and allow to cool on a wire rack before serving.
Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3-5 days.
To Freeze: Place muffins in a freezer safe bag or container and freeze for up to 3 months.
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I originally shared this recipe August 2016. Updated October 2020 and August 2023.
]]>It’s incredibly easy (and fun!) to make homemade English Muffins, using basic pantry ingredients, and cooking them in a skillet or griddle.
If you love easy bread recipes don’t miss my Artisan No Knead Bread, or homemade white bread or wheat bread.
Better than Store-Bought: You can’t beat the amazing freshness of these soft and chewy homemade English Muffins. They’re wonderful served toasted and slathered with homemade jam, in a delicious Breakfast Sandwich, or get extra fancy and make Eggs Benedict.
No Oven Required: There’s no baking required–the English muffins are cooked in a skillet on the stove, or use an electric griddle to cook many at once.
Freezer-Friendly: Make a big batch and store them in the freezer for months, to have some on hand all the time!
Did you know that English Muffins originated in the United States? They were made popular by an English emigrant –Samuel Bath Thomas– who called them “English” muffins to distinguish them from other sweet, cake-like American muffins. They’re not a traditional “muffin” at all, but a type of bread that’s split open (like a biscuit) and served toasted, with butter or jam.
Make Dough: Add yeast, milk, honey, egg, butter, salt, and 1 cup flour to a mixing bowl and mix well.
Rest: Add remaining flour and stir everything until very well combined, to form a soft, sticky dough. Cover bowl and set aside to rest for 20 minutes.
Shape English Muffins: Line two sheet pans with parchment paper and sprinkle cornmeal between the two. Use a greased ¼ cup measuring cup to scoop batter into equal portioned “blobs” onto the pan. Press and shape each batter blob into a flat, round disk, around 3 inches in diameter, then flip to the other side, to coat both flat sides lightly in cornmeal. The cornmeal helps make them easier to shape and handle.
Rise: Space the dough discs at least an inch apart along both baking sheets to give them room to rise. Cover the pans with a light kitchen towel or greased plastic wrap and allow to rise for 1 ½ hours. It’s important to let them rise, so that bubbles can develop in the dough, resulting in those nook and crannies in the center of the muffin that English muffins are known for.
Cook on a hot griddle or skillet for 7-10 minutes on each side, until cooked through.
Serve: To split open, poke the tines of a fork all around the outside center of each muffin, then split apart. Serve the best English Muffins toasted, with butter, jam, marmalade, or peanut butter. Use them to make Eggs Benedict, Crab Cake Benedict, or in a breakfast sandwich.
Store at room temperature for 3-4 days.
To Freeze: Place them in a freezer-safe bag or container in the freezer for up to 3 months. Re-warm in the toaster, or for a few seconds in the microwave.
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I originally shared this recipe February 2021. Updated August 2023.
]]>Healthy Banana Muffins that are flavorful and moist and just over 100 calories each. They’re low in sugar and fat, have no oil, but taste amazing.
Looking for more muffin recipes? Try Healthy Pumpkin Muffins, Skinny Chocolate Muffins, Healthy Applesauce Oat Muffins, or Blueberry Muffins!
Combine Wet Ingredients: Mash bananas in a mixing bowl then add egg, vanilla, brown sugar, granulated sugar, and cinnamon and stir well to combine.
Stir Dry Ingredients: In a separate small bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt then add to banana mixture and stir, just to combine.
Add Butter: Gently stir in melted butter, but don’t over-mix the batter.
Bake: Spoon the batter into prepared muffin pan then bake these healthy banana bread muffins for 18-25 minutes. Makes 12 muffins.
Enjoy: Eat warm from the oven (my favorite), or let cool and freeze for an easy breakfast, snack, or a kid’s school lunch!
To Store: These easy banana muffins will keep at room temperature for 3-5 days.
To Freeze: Cool completely then store in a freezer safe bag in the freezer for up to 3 months. Thaw on the counter or in the microwave. I love to add them to my kid’s school lunches.
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I originally shared this recipe March 2018. Updated August 2023.
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