Yogurt Oatmeal Muffins
May 18, 2007
Hello Possums, here is my favorite muffin recipe, upon Charlotte’s request.
This recipe is very flexible. I like to make them either with just a mashed banana, or banana and choc chips, but you can really chuck in your own favorite combo of flavours and be guaranteed of success.
1. mix 1 cup unsweetened plain or vanilla yogurt and 1 cup rolled oats together and leave to soak in the fridge for half an hour.
2. after half an hour stir the following things in, making sure you fold the flour in last to avoid over beating: 1 egg, 1/2 cup vegetable oil (I use extra virgin olive oil, but it works ok with canola oil or whatever you prefer), 1/2 cup sugar, your own favorite combinations of fruit, nuts, chocolate, spices, 1 1/4 cup self raising flour (or plain flour plus one teaspoon baking powder).
3. the mixture makes 12 large muffins (1 tray) or 24 little muffins (2 trays – these are very cute). Grease your tray and spoon the mixture in. Cook for about 15 minutes in a fairly hot oven, 220 Celsius. You might need 20 minutes for the large muffins, but its worth checking them at the 15 minute mark and giving them the extra time until they are golden brown on top, and no longer squishy – they should spring back to the touch. Photos of a couple of batches can be found here: Banana or Strawberry and Coconut.
Eat them when they cool or even before they cool down. Delicious!
They last quite well for two or three days without going dry – good for school lunch boxes.
Thank you! I will be baking these THIS afternoon. I love the idea of the yoghurt/oatmeal combination – just so healthy.
Hi Charlotte, I hope it works well for you! Please let me know how it goes and what flavors you chose. I am also cooking a batch this afternoon with Sally’s help.
These sound delicious and I will try them. I love making muffins – simpler than a cake. Thank you for posting your recipe!!
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You’re welcome Kate. Good luck with them, I would love to hear about the result. Do you have a particularly good brownie recipe?
I will let my kids have a go at this recipe. Sounds gorgeous.
Cheers.
Great! I will be interested to hear what flavors your kids choose. Cooking M&M’s work well with banana, or if raspberries are in season over your way that would be nice too… heaps of options!
I used this recipe yesterday and added chopped apples. My roommate Becca topped them with cinnamon crumble. Very tasty. We’ll be taking them to Monday night potluck, so they’ll have a large audience. I made 3 batches
Thanks for the recipe.
Hey Stephanie, that sounds excellent. Yum. I’m glad you like the recipe. I don’t know what a potluck night is though. Both you and Kate have mentioned this foreign word now and I’m very curious!
Hi Bindi,
I have just made some yogurt oatmeal muffins (with blueberries, pecans and some spices. I’m about to write a post about them! They are delicious. I took a pic so it will be on my blog in a few minutes. Thank you for the recipe.
Potluck suppers are popular here. Everyone brings a different dish and we all tuck in … if you aren’t careful, the potluck can turn into a night of desserts or salads … so for organised sorts, people are assigned different courses! There is probably something similar in Australia…
Hi Kate, wow, pecans – yum, yum, and blueberries – oh delicious! Oh, I can just imagine how yummy they would be warm. I’ll pop over to your site, just to really torture myself (ie. looking and not eating).
Yes, we do have casserole nights or planned dinner parties where different people bring along a course, but not the pot luck idea where you could end up with no starters or no main course! That sounds really funny to me.
I’m now eating yet another muffin … I have resolutely decided to go to the gym tomorrow morning! My blog entry took a bit longer to write since my mum phoned and there I was reduced to one-finger typing of the silent kind so she didn’t ask, “Is that the computer I can hear in the background?” which is the ultimate of rude in my mum’s book.
Haha. Yes, guilty of typing whilst on phonecalls too. Not good for the neck really.
My eldest is baking again soon for the school. I’ll pass this onto her. Thanks!
You’re welcome misslionheart. This recipe is a cinch! No creaming of butter, etc. dead easy!
Hello Bindi from melbourne (we were in M in 2004 – left on Easter Sunday)
Greetings from Jhb, South Africa.
These sound delicious! Muffins are my favourite things to make because they’re so easy!
I will make some, blog it and let you know. I do a weekend cooking thing on my blog and this will fit in nicely.
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Hello Possums, I have noticed that many of you have landed here after searching the web on yougurt oatmeal muffins. Welcome! I hope you use the recipe. It is now quite international. Charlotte in Germany, Kate in Canada and Stephanie in the US have all made them adding their own signatures of flavour. If you make them, please let us know how you go and feel free to leave a link here to your blog if you post about them. Cheers,
Bindi.
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Can’t wait to try the recipe with all these combinations too. The banana and cinnamon, that I tried to start with, went down a storm with all my family, now I need to bake again, no shortage of ideas now!
Hi Kit, they don’t last long do they?
Charlotte has suggested lemon zest! This opens up lots of possibilities too, eg with choc chips, or poppy seeds.
The strawberry and coconut ones I made yesterday were also pretty yummy!
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About to try the youghurt and rolled oats muffins, will let you know how they turn out!
Hi Mandy. I’m lookng forward to hearing which flavours you chose. Good luck with it.
I’ve just tried the muffin recipe with fruity yogurt from the fridge, therefore I used only 1/4 sugar. I also substituted 1/4 c of the flour to almond meal. ( I think it was an effort to be more healthy … a 1/4 cup at a time!!!)
Excellent results!!
These are fabulous muffins. Thanks
What a great idea Kate! The flavour came from the yogurt itself rather than adding fruit. Great to hear about your successful adaptation, thank you! Happy eating xx
Hey Bindi
Just tried these also with some organic honey and almond yoghurt + mashed banana – I only used 1/4 cup sugar and used olive oil, results sensational!
ooh that does sound delectable! Well done Liss. Its helpful to hear that with honey you can reduce the sugar and they still taste great.
actually, you don’t cut the sugar by using flavored yogurt because it is generally full of sugar. only plain yogurt has a low sugar content.
Hi there, I was searching for a muffin recipe that would be “healthy” – and something that my super picky 2 and 3 year olds would eat. They will not eat oatmeal, or most fruit, and they will only eat yogurt sometimes. So, I wanted to make these muffins for their lunch box tomorrow … here are my modifications:
– vanilla yogurt + splash of vanilla
– used only 1/4 c of oil, and added 1/4 c applesauce
– didn’t have regular oats, so used 4 packets of quaker instant oatmeal (2 banana and 2 strawberry)
– used about 1 1/4 t baking powder
– fresh strawberries chopped up
– made 2 dozen mini muffins, baked exactly 15 minutes at 425 F
My husband, who rolled his eyes at my “expirament” is now on his 4th, telling me they taste like strawberry shortcake without the whip cream
THANKS!
Forgot to mention, since this is such a “worldly” recipe, I am from Southern Oregon in the USA.
Hi there Rogue Mama, your adaptions sound very successful. Thanks for sharing them