Berry season is one of my favourite times of the year and when I saw strawberries for 99 cents a punnet at my local fruit & vege shop I knew I needed to pick up a few quick smart – some for eating, some for smoothies and some for these strawberry oat muffins!
I’m a sucker for a mid-morning muffin at work and thankfully these ones aren’t super un-healthy thanks to the addition of oats & yoghurt, and only a smidge of sugar. Plus, they have fruit so that’s a good thing too!
I slightly adapted the recipe from one I found here
Ingredients List
- 1 1/4 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup vanilla or plain greek yoghurt
- 250g punnet strawberries
- 2tsp sugar
- 2tsp balsamic vinegar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1tsp vanilla essence
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1tbs baking powder
- 1tsp baking soda
- 1/4tsp salt
- 1tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 cup shredded coconut
Steps
- Preheat oven to 200C
- Combine oats and yoghurt in a large bowl and stir together
- Hull the strawberries and cut into small pieces then place in a bowl and sprinkle over the sugar and balsamic vinegar. Stir to mix through and set aside
- Add the eggs, butter, brown sugar and vanilla essence to the oat mixture and fold through
- In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon then add to the oat mixture and fold until just combined, without over mixing
- Fold in the strawberries (and any excess liquid) and coconut until just combined then spoon in to 12 muffin cases
- Bake for 20 minutes until browned and a skewer comes out clean
- Enjoy!
Thanks to the combination of the oats and yoghurt the muffins are dense without being heavy and they’re definitely not short on flavour. I won’t blame you if you can’t stop at one!
What have you been baking recently? Fancy one of these strawberry oat muffins?!
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Lucy @ Bake Play Smile
November 3, 2014 at 8:39 am (9 years ago)Yum what a great flavour combination!! I totally agree – strawberries are so cheap at the moment!!!
I Spy Plum Pie (admin)
November 3, 2014 at 4:37 pm (9 years ago)Yep, loving how cheap they are! I’m eating so strawberries at the moment!
Lila
November 3, 2014 at 9:40 am (9 years ago)Yum! I’m with you on the strawberries I made ice-cream with them this week!
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I Spy Plum Pie (admin)
November 3, 2014 at 4:37 pm (9 years ago)Ooh yum, I shall pop straight over and check it out! xx
vegeTARAian
November 3, 2014 at 2:23 pm (9 years ago)Those muffins! That fork!
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I Spy Plum Pie (admin)
November 3, 2014 at 4:39 pm (9 years ago)Isn’t it the cutest fork! I have a set of 4 and they each have a different cake on top, so good!
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef
November 3, 2014 at 2:56 pm (9 years ago)I’ve never made muffins with strawberries in them and I’m trying to figure out why. These sound delicious!
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I Spy Plum Pie (admin)
November 3, 2014 at 4:39 pm (9 years ago)Time to rectify that I think Maureen!
Elizabeth
November 3, 2014 at 9:37 pm (9 years ago)I love a good fruit muffin and oats are good in almost all baked goods.
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I Spy Plum Pie (admin)
November 7, 2014 at 9:30 am (9 years ago)Oats really do make a difference don’t they!