Healthy Apple Muffins

5 from 5 votes

Easy healthy apple muffins that are only 189 calories per muffin. Made with 100 percent oat flour, no oil or butter, and sweetened naturally with honey. They're moist, tender, and bursting with apple flavor. Irresistibly delicious!

Prep Time10

Cook Time15

Servings: muffins

Author: Bea & Marco

Ingredients

Dry ingredients

1 ¼ cup (160 g) oat flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
¼ teaspoon salt

Wet ingredients

½ cup (130 g) applesauce
¼ cup (80 g) honey
¼ cup (60 ml) milk , room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg , room temperature
1 Golden apple , peeled and diced

Crumble

½ cup (65 g) oat flour
3 tablespoon (45 ml) melted coconut oil , or any oil or melted butter
2 tablespoon unrefined brown sugar

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400ºF (200ºC), with no fan. Line a muffin tin with 10 muffin liners.

Dry ingredients

Add oat flour, cinnamon powder, baking powder, and salt into a bowl. Mix very well using a spoon, and set aside.

Wet ingredients

Add applesauce, honey, milk, vanilla extract, and egg in another bigger bowl. Whisk until everything is well combined using a hand whisk.
Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and whisk until there are no lumps. Fold the diced apple into the batter using a spatula. Set aside.

Crumble

Add oat flour, coconut oil, and brown sugar into a small bowl and mix well using a fork. Divide the batter evenly into 10 muffin liners using an ice cream scoop. Sprinkle the crumble on top.

Bake in the oven

Bake on the middle rack for 18-20 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Enjoy!

Bake in the air-fryer

Use silicon muffin casings or anything sturdier than muffin liners so the muffins can hold their shape. Preheat the air-fryer to 320ºF (160ºC) for 5 minutes.
Place the muffins into the air fryer basket. Bake using the air-fryer program for 13 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
Wait 1-2 minutes so that they're not super hot before carefully removing them onto a rack. Continue baking the rest. Leave muffins for 10 minutes before removing them from the silicon casings, and then cool completely. Enjoy!

Notes

Use the spoon and level method for cup measurements.
If grinding your own oat flour, measure the amount needed after grinding the oats, not before.
Use a portable oven thermometer to get the accurate oven temperature. I use it every single time I bake.
Depending on the size of your air-fryer basket and the type of muffin casings used, the cooking time might slightly vary. I always bake mine in silicon muffin casings when I'm using my air-fryer.

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