These Healthy Oatmeal Muffins are just 75 calories, and come with 5 flavors and yummy toppings. This gives you countless ways to make these low calorie oatmeal muffins!
Best of all, these healthy oat muffins have no flour, no butter, and use only 100% all-natural ingredients!
My favorite flavor are the lemon blueberry oatmeal muffins, and I always like to add a little oatmeal and coconut sugar to the tops. It gives a nice crunchy muffin top, but no matter how you make these, they are amazing.
Healthy Oatmeal Muffins
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Ingredients in Low Calorie Oatmeal Muffins
I have supplied a basic recipe, and below you’ll also find lots of add-ins and toppings. So you can make blueberry, chocolate chip, and even cranberry muffins all with this basic oat muffin batter recipe.
Low Calorie Oatmeal Muffin Ingredients:
- Bananas – you want very ripe bananas, they take the place of sugar (but I do have tips for using bananas not past their prime in the recipe card)
- Greek Yogurt – I use 0% greek yogurt, it’s packed with protein and naturally increases metabolism.
- Eggs – boosts the protein more and helps bind the muffins.
- Vanilla – gives a boost of flavor for virtually no calories.
- Oatmeal – you’ll want old fashioned or rolled oats, gluten free oats also work.
- Baking Soda and Powder – you’ll need both, these help the muffins rise.
- Optional Add-Ins and Toppings – there are so many yummy add-ins and toppings, see below the photo or in the recipe card for lots of yummy oat muffin flavors.
Optional Flavors and Toppings:
Blueberry Oat Muffins:
- Blueberries
Lemon Blueberry Oat Muffins:
- Lemon zest
- Blueberries
Chocolate Chip Oat Muffins:
- Semi sweet chocolate chips
Cranberry Oat Muffins:
- Dried cranberries
Optional Toppings:
- Coconut sugar
- Uncooked rolled oats
- Chopped nuts
How to Make Healthy Oatmeal Muffins
These healthy oat muffins are so easy and fun to make. You basically add everything (except add-ins and toppings) to a food processor or blender, and let it do all the work for you!
Tools and Equipment:
- Food Processor or High Speed Blender
- Measuring Cups and Spoons
- Muffin Tin
- Muffin Cup Liners
How to Make Healthy Oat Muffins:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and line a muffin pan with paper muffin liners.
- To a food processor or high speed blender add the bananas, greek yogurt, eggs, vanilla extract, oats, baking powder and baking soda.
- Process or blend until you have a smooth batter, then gently folding any add-ins (like blueberries, chocolate chips, dried cranberries, etc.)
- Scoop the batter into the muffin cups, and sprinkle with any desired toppings.
- Bake for 15 minutes, until the muffins are set and lightly browned.
- Cool in the pan 5 minutes, then move to a cooling rack or serve hot.
- Muffins will hold in the fridge for 7 days or the freezer for a month.
Healthy Oatmeal Muffin Recipe
These healthy oat muffins are a great snack or light breakfast! They fit great in lunch boxes and are packed with good for you ingredients you can feel good about eating and serving.
Here are some more low calorie muffin recipes I think you’ll love.
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Low Calorie Oatmeal Muffins (75 Calories)
Equipment
- Food Processor or High Speed Blender
- Muffin tin
- Muffin Cup Liners
Ingredients
- 2 ripe bananas
- 1 cup 0% Greek yogurt
- 2 eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
Blueberry Oat Muffins:
- ½ cup blueberries
Lemon Blueberry Oat Muffins:
- Zest of 1 lemon
- ½ cup blueberries
Chocolate Chip Oat Muffins:
- ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips
Cranberry Oat Muffins:
- ⅓ cup dried cranberries
Optional Toppings:
- 3 tablespoons coconut sugar
- ¼ cup uncooked rolled oats
- ¼ cup chopped nuts
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and line a muffin pan with paper muffin liners.
- To a food processor or high speed blender add the bananas, greek yogurt, eggs, vanilla extract, oats, baking powder and baking soda.
- Process or blend until you have a smooth batter, then gently folding any add-ins (like blueberries, chocolate chips, dried cranberries, etc.)
- Scoop the batter into the muffin cups, and sprinkle with any desired toppings.
- Bake for 15 minutes, until the muffins are set and lightly browned.
- Cool in the pan 5 minutes, then move to a cooling rack or serve hot.
- Muffins will hold in the fridge for 7 days or the freezer for a month.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Oatmeal Muffins
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Article History:
- Originally published on April 28, 2023 by Audrey Johns
- Updated on August 23, 2023 by Audrey Johns
