Apple Cinnamon Oat Bran Muffins
Apple Cinnamon Oat Bran Muffin
It took me a while to get this recipe right-I’ve been trying for about two weeks but I finally have something I can be proud of besides a really cute picture! I’m kind of picky and I was having a hard time with Splenda. I’m actually ready to get back to baking with honey and agave syrup but until then…
APPLE CINNAMON OAT BRAN MUFFINS RECIPE
8 tablespoons of oat bran
2 eggs
5 T nonfat Yoplait apple turnover yogurt
1 t baking powder
1 t cinnamon
2 t Splenda (I use 2 T Brown Sugar Blend)
1 T sugarfree vanilla pudding powder
1 t vanilla
Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Add the yogurt and eggs and whisk until smooth. Add vanilla. Divide the mixture equally between minis or regular muffins in paper cups. Because there is no fat in them, they tend to stick a bit. Try a little spray of olive oil in the cup first.
Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes for mini muffins, 15-18 for regular muffins.
BANANA OAT BRAN MUFFINS RECIPE
8 tablespoons of oat bran
2 eggs
5 T nonfat lemon chiffon yogurt
1 t baking powder
1 t cinnamon
2 t Splenda (I use 2 T Brown Sugar Blend)
1 T sugarfree banana pudding powder
1 t vanilla
Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Add the yogurt and eggs and whisk until smooth. Add vanilla. Divide the mixture equally between minis or regular muffins in paper cups. Because there is no fat in them, they tend to stick a bit. Try a little spray of olive oil in the cup first.
Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes for mini muffins, 15-18 for regular muffins.
Lemon Blueberry Oat Bran Muffin
LEMON BLUEBERRY OAT BRAN MUFFINS RECIPE
8 tablespoons of oat bran
2 eggs
5 T of nonfat blueberry yogurt
1 t baking powder
1 T lemon zest
2 T sugarfree vanilla pudding powder
2 t Splenda (I use 2 T Brown Sugar Blend)
1 t vanilla
Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Add the yogurt and eggs and whisk until smooth. Add vanilla. Divide the mixture equally between minis or regular muffins in paper cups. Because there is no fat in them, they tend to stick a bit. Try a little spray of olive oil in the cup first.
Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes for mini muffins, 15-18 for regular muffins.
4 servings of oat bran
Hi, these muffins look yummy, but I don’t think we have ‘flavoured pudding powder’ in the UK – what is it / what does it consist of and do you happen to know a UK alternative? I will use the Mullerlight Fat Free Flavoured yoghurt for the other part so that is fine. Re: Vanlla – do you mean Vanilla Essence? We have stuff like that. Thanks as always!
Holy wow!
Thanks for the great muffin recipes.
Your delicious recipes keep me on course.
You’re amazing!
Doesn’t the Brown Sugar blend have REAL sugar in it?
vanilla essence, yes. instead of the vanilla pudding you could use powdered milk and more sweetener. yes, brown sugar blend has real sugar in it. you use a lot less and i just can’t get past the taste of Splenda. in the Consolidation phase i will be going back to honey and agave syrup. i don’t like all the fake sweeteners and chemicals i’m using now.
Just made the blueberry muffins and didnt have lemon…but had some orange extract…..Delicious! I bought some pineapple upside down yogurt to try next…..And I also bought the fat free/sugar free cheesecake pudding and will make the next batch with some raspberry cheesecake yogurt!
That sounds delicious! I have to try the cheesecake one! yum!!
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I made the apple cinnamon muffins tonight and they were delish! Tomorrow is my birthday, and since I can’t have cake, I made these and spread some cream cheese on top! If I hadn’t made them myself, I would have thought it was a cupcake! Maybe I’ll put a candle in one tomorrow for my actual birthday!!! Love your recipes, keep up the good work!
well, thank you. and Happy Birthday!! I’m glad they turned out ok. have a great day!
I’m in the Attack phase and I was getting desperate for a new way to consume oat bran. I can’t wait to try out these muffins! Have you ever used Stevia instead of Splenda? It’s a plant-based, no-calorie sweetener. I use Stevia in the Raw, but Truvia is a good brand too. Oh! And I found a recipe somewhere for a non-fat, low-sugar cream cheese frosting (do an internet search for it). Sounds like it would go well with these muffins.
i do use stevia, in fact i have a plant growing in my herb garden! i just can’t do the fat free cream cheese so i didn’t like the frosting. once i get out of consolidation i will try it with the lowfat cream cheese. it sounds delicious on the muffins.
I have baked several of your muffin recipes, and they turn out well. I am bothered by the fact that the Yoplait fat free yoghurts contain high fructose corn syrup, which is (at least in my book) one of nastiest inventions in recent history. I realize the amount is pretty small. But I modified the banana muffins recipe by replacing the flavored yoghurt with fat free Fage Greek yoghurt, cutting out the Splenda, and using 2 tablespoons of the DaVinci sugar free banana syrup. It has a more intense banana flavor and is totally without sugar or high fructose corn syrup.
i hate it all. hate all the chemicals. i love baking now with agave syrup and honey again. but i actually heard that agave syrup is just as processed as sugar. do you know?
Hi Amy,
I don’t know if they have it, but sugar free Angel Delight would be the same thing xxx
LOVE allof these ideas! And thanks for mentioning how many servings of oat bran each recipe makes! Takes the guess work/math out of the equation for me
just found your website this week. Have made several recipes. All fantastic. Regarding Splenda: Have you looked at or tried Xylitol? It is from a plant, like Stevia, but it really does taste like sugar. It’s all natural. No chemical additives. It says it measures like sugar, but I find it’s not quite as sweet – measure for measure. I have to get it at a health food store. Also available from Amazon. I’ve seen quite a few Dukan recipes online which use it.
i’ll try it. i think it’s in some of my sugar free products but i haven’t tried it on it’s own. thanks for the suggestion! i’ll add it to the store on the site and try it too!! Welcome…by the way!
Just wondering if you have experimented with using baking soda along with baking powder. I’m thinking the muffins might rise a little bit more. I am enjoying your recipes.
i have. some of the recipes have both, some dont. i think they all should have a little of both!!
Are you using instant pudding or the “cook and serve”?
instant.
Hello, just a quick note from Canada to let you know how much I enjoy trying some of your recipes.
I also wanted to let you know about a variation I made to your lemon blueberry muffins. I used Fat Free Cherry(instead of Blueberry) yogurt and Sugar Free Chocolate(instead of vanilla) pudding. I call them Black Forest Muffins…
Cheers,
Claude
well, thanks Claude! your muffins sound delicious! may have to give that mixture a try. what part of canada are you from? my mom is from BC and my aunt is in new westminster, cousin in Nanaimo! cool, eh? you’ll see that i throw a couple of those in the posts, just for my mum!
Isn’t the flavored non fat yogurt a no no on the diet? or did i read it wrong? i’m just beginning in the attack phase and didn’t want to eat or use something that i really wasn’t supposed to. And are the sugar free JELLO gelatin and pudding ok to eat? or to cook with?
i’ve had so many conversations about yogurt over the past year that even i’m confused about it. here is what the us book says: “natural and flavored yogurts are allowed without any restriction. nonfat fruit yogurts are allowed (the ones with bits of fruit), but no more than 8 ounces per day. however, if you want a lightning-fast start to your attack phase diet, you are better off avoiding them altogether and even more so if you have hit a weight plateau.” i personally at yoplait light fat free yogurt, usually cherry, almost every day of attack and cruise. these are decisions you’ll have to make for yourself though. good luck!!
My Yoplait Source has sucralose in it. Is that the same as what you are talking about? (high fructose corn syrup)
Just made the Apple Cinnamon Oat Bran muffins. They were great! I have tried other muffin recipes and they were so-so OK. These are just like regular muffins. I will have to try the 95% FF cream cheese icing on the next one. Will go over to my knitting shop and knit and chat for a while so I don’t sit here and eat them all. Ha, ha, ha. I also use Xylitol and/or Stevia but I did use the Splenda Brown Sugar blend for these along with the Yoplait Source 0% fat Apple Crumble-Vanilla flavour. The package says sweetened with Splenda w/ sucralose – each 100 gr has 4 gr sugar. However the front of the box says “No sugar added” – how does that figure???
Probably. I pretty much ate fat free yogurt through the entire diet. Didn’t affect my weight loss.
I had a hard time with sweeteners when I started this diet over a year ago. I recently found the zero calorie brown sugar and it has tremendously. The Splenda is a blend of real brown sugar so it really wasn’t approved for the diet but I hated the regular diet sweeteners too much. The new one I found is awesome though. And they fool you with “no sugar added” by the way. That means they don’t put any in. But if any of the ingredients already have sugars in them, they stay in. They’re not truly “sugar free”.
I wish I was in a knitting group!