A super-moist chocolate oatmeal chocolate chip muffins done the skinny way. Contains all of the flavors of a regular muffin with less calories - no oil or butter. Skinny Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins.
I cannot believe how cold it is outside today - wow! We woke up this morning to it being 5 degrees with a -5 degree windchill... that is downright cold in the DC area. Oh, we also woke up to our bathroom sink pipes being frozen. What a morning.
As I as writing this I am munching down on these skinny oatmeal chocolate muffins and letting our bathroom borrow our heater. I wish I was sitting by that right now... what can you do!
Hopefully I don't eat the whole dozen because I am freaking out right now. This is our first time we have owned our home and never had anything like this happen. Clay thinks I worry too much...I just think I have my reasons! 🙂
I can't believe this is my first skinny recipe I am sharing with you guys - don't you feel special? You should. These babies are delicious. Did I mention they do not contain and oil or butter and are delicious and moist? Oh yeah!
I love how you don't even need a mixer to mix these skinny deliciousness up. Save that for another time! They only require 18 minutes of baking. 😀
I think you guys will enjoy these because they will not make you cheat on your diet that you set for the new year. I think I will just go and grab another one!
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup honey
- ¾ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 large egg
- ¾ cup sour cream I used fat-free - you can use which ever you have on hand
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup whole wheat flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup [old-fashioned oatmeal|http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0005YX9HM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0005YX9HM&linkCode=as2&tag=savcoudea-20]
- ½ cup [chocolate chips|http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001C1MCHK/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001C1MCHK&linkCode=as2&tag=savcoudea-20]
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Preheat oven to 425 degrees and grease a muffin tin with cooking spray or olive oil.
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In a large bowl, combine the granulated sugar and honey. Mix together.
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Add in the egg and mix, then add in the sour cream and applesauce and mix everything together thoroughly.
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Mix in the all-purpose and whole wheat flour, then add in the salt, cocoa powder,baking soda and baking powder.
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Fold in the old-fashioned oatmeal and chocolate chips.
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Pour mixture into the muffin tins ¾ of the way and bake for 5 minutes.
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Turn down the oven to 375 degrees and bake for 12 minutes.
Do not use cupcake liners because they will stick badly. Stores in an airtight container for one week.
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Muffins are a favorite weekend staple in our house - oh, and chocolate - it's the best. Thanks for sharing your delicious recipe - I'm turning on the oven right now. Pinned/shared.
Keep Warm!
Mmmmm ..... I think these would be the route to go when I want something with chocolate ..... since they're better for me 🙂 Pinned this!
Delicious for being skinny! 🙂 Thank you, Jamie!
These sound delicious! Do you think swapping sour cream for Greek yogurt would work as well?
Jordan - Greek yogurt would work perfectly with these as well 🙂
These look super duper moist just from the pictures! Also looking over the list of ingredients they look so healthy. Cannot wait to try these out! Thanks for the post!
They are super moist, Katy! 🙂
I just made them and they were so good! Thank you for such a great recipe - one that I will be using a long time from now! 🙂
Katy - I am so happy you enjoyed them! You are more than welcome. 🙂 <3
My son is asking for snacks all the time. Guess he's growing again. I think I need to try these out to have something delicious but healthy to give him the next time. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for stopping by, Joanna! I hope he enjoys them 🙂
I love this recipe - what a delicious sounding muffin!
Heather - It is definitely delicious.
Thank you so much for sharing your DELICIOUS Nibbles at Wonderfully Creative Wednesday! What a perfect treat for the NEW YEAR!!! I'll featuring them today on my FB page and tweeting and pinning as well 🙂 Warmest, Nic
Thank you so much! 🙂
they look yummy!
It has been way to cold, I live near the DC area and definitely feel your pain! Good luck with your frozen pipes! I will say this though, the muffins look so good and I love the skinny part! 🙂
Thank you, Ciara!
Look delicious! Bummer they aren't vegan 🙁 We have food allergies in our life, so vegan is our only way to go for baked goods.
I got excited because you said "Can you believe these don't contain oil or eggs", but the recipe clearly calls for eggs 🙁
I'll have to try to make these vegan & let you know how they turn out
Amy - In the beginning it states no oil or butter and the eggs near the end was a typo. Sorry! I fixed it now. Please let me know how the vegan ones turn out! 🙂
I used mashed banana in place of egg and it turned out great!
I am so happy that it works with mashed bananas! Yum! Thank you so much for sharing out it turned out for you. I hope you have a great week, Jessica.
These look delicious. I love the photos and your watermark image is the cutest! Great work. Pinning.
Thank you so much, Jelli! 🙂
These looks amazingly delicious! I gotta try those muffins!
XOXO
Cami
Those look amazing! Pinned! I may have to make them tomorrow! Found you on Flamingotoe.com
Charlie - Thanks for pinning and stopping by! 🙂
These look great! I was just making them now but the instructions don't mention the applesauce or baking powder at all. When do those go in? I realized I forgot the applesauce after they went in the oven, hopefully they'll still come out as something good!
Natasha - I am terribly sorry! It is updated now 🙂
Brrr, sounds cold. Even when it's that cold in Denver it's still dry air so it's not as freezing to the bones.
Great recipe! I'm excited to try it!
Thanks!
Sami - That is what I love out there - the dry air. Here we have so much humidity in the air that it makes it freezing to the bones, especially when we aren't used to those temperatures. Back up to the 30s now 🙂
These look great! Thanks for sharing! I will add them to my list of recipes to try.
Stopping by from the Uncommon Designs link party!
Blair - Thanks for stopping by 🙂
Must make these for breakfast soon! Thanks for linking up with What's Cookin' Wednesday!
I've just made those; they are delicious! I keep thinking: shall i have another one?;) thanks
Kaja - They are very good! I might of eaten more than one 😉
Hi Chelsea, thanks so much for linking up to Thriving on Thursdays. This couldn't be better timing because our kids go back to school soon here in Australia. I'm definitely putting this on my baking menu for lunchboxes. I'm featuring this one at tomorrow's party.
Anne xx
Anne - Thanks for featuring me! 🙂
These muffins look fantastic and I really like the fact of using roll-oats
I'm definitely going to try this recipe 🙂
These look delicious 🙂
Mmm these look delicious! I am going to be Guest Hosting for Do Tell Tuesday next week and will be featuring this!
Jenna - thank you so much 🙂