Healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins

• servings: 12 servings
• active time: 15 minutes
• total time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

1 cup oats (I use old-fashioned oats)

1 cup skim milk (or soy or whatever you have)

1 cup white whole wheat flour (see notes)

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/3 cup brown sugar

1 large egg

1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened (see notes)

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

Preheat oven to 350. Line a muffin tin with muffin liners and spray with cooking spray.

Combine oats and milk and let those soak while you prepare the rest of the recipe, to soften the oats.

In a large bowl, whisk together the egg and brown sugar until smooth and caramel colored.

Add vanilla and butter and whisk to combine. You may have small pieces of butter in the mixture, which is totally fine. (See notes.)

Add flour, oat-milk mixture, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Stir until well combined but don’t over mix.

Fold in the chocolate chips.

Distribute the batter between the muffin tins - they will be about 2/3rds full.

Bake for 15-18 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1 muffin
• Calories: 198
• Total Fat: 9 g
• Saturated Fat: 5 g
• Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
• Trans Fat: 0 g
• Cholesterol: 26 mg
• Sodium: 168 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 27 g
• Dietary Fiber: 3 g
• Total Sugars: 14 g
• Protein: 4 g