Low Gi Oat and Apple Muffins

[JenniCB]

This has been adapted from the New Glucose Revolution book.

Makes: 10 smallish muffins

Ingredients:
40g All Bran Cereal
160g Milk
1 green apple, cored, peeled and quartered
1 egg
70g honey
½ tsp vanilla essence
90g SR flour
60g unprocessed oat bran
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp mixed spice
80g sultanas

Method:

Pre heat oven to 180C

Combine All Bran and milk in a bowl and let stand for 10 mins.

Chop apple for 1 second at a time on speed 4 scraping down sides and checking in between (I found 2 secs was enough). Set aside.

Add egg, honey and vanilla and mix for 10 seconds on speed 6.

Add flour, oat bran, baking powder, mixed spice and seeds and mix for 10 seconds on speed 6.

Add sultanas, apple and All Bran and mix for 15 seconds   + speed 1.

Pour into a muffin tray and bake for 15 mins.


As above, I found this mix made 10 small muffins. May want to double the mixture to make more, bigger muffins.

members' comments

KerrynN - DS7 and I made a version of these today. We doubled the recipe as suggested and got 24 cupcake sized muffins.
We had no oat bran, so 'whizzed' some oats instead. We also used wheat bran instead of all bran, but in the end used 100 grams of oats and 100g of wheat bran. Instead of sultanas alone we used half sultanas and half cranberries. For the spices I used 1/3 each of cinnamon, cloves and ginger. We added the milk when the all bran would have been added. DS7 decided that they 'taste like porridge', which for him is a good thing but not so much for DS10. I enjoyed them though they are a bit dense. DS7 was particularly excited that I let him have a muffin for breakfast too!

[cookie1]

These sound healthy as well as tasty.

[KerrynN]

What could you use instead of All Bran? I'm trying to avoid buying packaged cereals.

[JenniCB]

I would probably just leave it out all together.

[KerrynN]

DS7 and I made a version of these today. We doubled the recipe as suggested and got 24 cupcake sized muffins.
We had no oat bran, so 'whizzed' some oats instead. We also used wheat bran instead of all bran, but in the end used 100 grams of oats and 100g of wheat bran. Instead of sultanas alone we used half sultanas and half cranberries. For the spices I used 1/3 each of cinnamon, cloves and ginger. We added the milk when the all bran would have been added.

DS7 decided that they 'taste like porridge', which for him is a good thing but not so much for DS10. I enjoyed them though they are a bit dense. DS7 was particularly excited that I let him have a muffin for breakfast too!