Healthy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins
My honey had been working all weekend on his feet keeping a rather famous Buddhist nun safe from harm. The building where she was teaching was on the San Francisco Bay- an old Ford assembly plant. It was beautiful- all windows and incredibly high ceilings 40+ feet if I had to guess. All weekend it had been cold, rainy, and just blustery- a huge departure from the sunny Indian summer we’d experienced the week before.a
While I’d enjoyed the teachings of Pema Chodron, the aforementioned Buddhist nun, on Saturday, I opted to stay home on Sunday and be domestic. I wanted to have something warm, toasty and super comforting for my hubby when he got home from work. Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are his favorite, but I was looking to create something that was a bit more nourishing. So, here they are my steel-cut oatmeal chocolate chip muffins (and loaf cake too) with crunchy sweet topping Yum!
- INGREDIENTS
- 1 ¼ cups quick cooking steel cut oats
- 1 ½ cups milk
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup raw sugar
- 4 tablespoons ground golden flax seeds
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- ¾ c whole wheat flour
- ½ c unbleached flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon finely ground sea salt
- INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Soak oats in milk salt and vanilla for 20 minutes
- Add oil, egg, and mix thoroughly
- Mix flours, flax, baking powder, ½ of pecans, ½ of chocolate chips, ½ of sugar together until nicely combined
- Then add the oatmeal mixture to the flour mixture and mix until everything is just wet.
- Scoop everything into muffin tins or loaf pans. I did six muffins and one loaf pan.
- Mix leftover sugar, pecans, and chocolate chips & sprinkle on top
- Bake muffins for 15-20 minutes, or bake loaf for 17-21 minutes.
- Remove when toothpick comes out clean & place on rack to cool
- Enjoy at least one while still a little warm with a glass of ice cold milk!
yum! it's funny, I can hear your voice when i'm reading this. what if someone is reading this blog but doesn't know you? I request a T.V. show!!
You're so on my wavelength, darling! The ultimate culmination of my five year plan involves total food celebrity. I imagine that involves television. Perhaps I'll start experimenting with some youtube videos in the coming months. Although my kitchen is nothing to look at. Le sigh. XX
These look delish! I am obsessed with anything involving oatmeal and chocolate so I will definitely have to modify these and give them a try (and no…I won't post it on my blog, lol!). If you want to try a youtube video, you can always use my kitchen…it's small but it photographs well 🙂
Please do post them on your blog, and let me know how they go. That's what makes the blog world go round!
OMG, we can totally give you a set-kitchen vibe honey! Let's brainstorm about it!
Oh, that would be so great! How do we hide the five kinds of tile in my kitchen?
I'm going to make these, Sabrina. They look great. I'll let you know what Aydin and Ayla Kay think of them.
I can't wait to hear what everyone thinks!
Where do I obtain the nutritional info…need grams of carbs.
Hi Keli,
I don\’t have nutritional data for my recipes, but I have seen some calculators online for recipes. I know there is one at sparkpeople.com
I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any questions.
Sabrina
I have quick cooking oats. Do I have to soak them ?
Hi Michelle,
If you are using quick cooking rolled oats, there should be no need to soak them. I used steel cut oats which take much longer to cook. I’m not sure how the rolled oats will work as a substitution, but I’d love your input if you try it!
Made these yesterday although I did not have flax seed and used walnuts from our grove instead of pecans. Very delicious. Great recipe. I owe you a recipe!