Oatmeal BOO-berry Muffins

I love blueberry muffins and thanks again to my Tita Lily, I have a lot of perfectly ripened, hand picked blueberries, frozen in my freezer. I have made blueberry muffins with cake flour and flax, this time I am using old fashion oats. I am still trying to stay away from too many "bad" carbs, so I am cutting the flour on this muffin and replacing with healthy oats!

Start with Old Fashion Oats

It's getting colder now and there's something about oatmeal that gives me warm fuzzies in the Fall. Halloween is coming and these little Boo-berry muffins are a great hearty treat to snack on with a hot cider! Mmmmmm...YUM!

Fresh out of the oven, mmm, smell that? YUM!

I made these muffins for my Friend Kelli. Kelli has a newborn baby girl, Quincy Grace.

Oatmeal BOO-berry Muffins
Servings: 12

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups old fashion oats
1 cup all-purpose flour

1/3 cup dark brown sugar

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 cup lowfat vanilla yogurt

1 egg

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1 cup frozen blueberries

(Optional: 1 teaspoon sugar crystals)

Directions:

Combine oats, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.

Mix in yogurt, egg, and oil; mix just until dry ingredients are moistened.

Fold in blueberries.

Fill greased or paper lined muffin cups 2/3 full with batter.

(Optional: Sprinkle with sugar.)

Bake at 425 degrees F (220 degrees C) for 20 to 25 minutes.

Cool on rack.

Enjoy!

And the cupboard was bare...Blueberry Yogurt Flax Muffins

Blueberry Yogurt Flax Muffins

No butter, no milk, no worries. I wanted to make muffins with all the blueberries my Aunt Lily was so kind to give me. I froze most of the blueberries so I would have them handy for smoothies. Another very rainy day in Seattle and a smoothie just didn't seem appealing.

Oh, how nice it would be to smell freshly baked muffins today. Blueberry muffins it is. NO, no, no...no butter. Forget it. Wait. I checked out a few recipes online like foodnetwork, cooks.com, hmmm. I also looked through a few of my old cookbooks. Well, I combined a few recipes and added a few healthy ingredients and SUCCESS! My biggest critics, husband & son, loved my blueberry muffin creation.

Blueberry Yogurt Flax Muffins

Blueberry Yogurt Flax Muffins (Recipe adapted from Alton Brown)

Preheat oven to 380 degrees F.

Combine the following, reserving 1 teaspoon flour, whisk and set aside:12 1/2 ounces cake flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 2 teaspoons baking powder, pinch salt, 1 T wheat germ, 1 T crushed flax seeds

In a mixing bowl, combine the following:1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 1 egg 1 cup "good Greek" yogurt

Toss 1 teaspoon of the flour mixture with 1 1/2 cups frozen blueberries and mix into the muffin batter. Mix by hand just to combine.

Scoop batter into a lined muffin pan. Put the muffins in the oven, set timer to 20 minutes and increase the temperature to 400 degrees F.

Enjoy!!!