The recipe for these yummiliscious healthy blueberry muffins were tested by 16 picky preschoolers. When they eat it up, you know you’ve got the mix right.
Healthy Blueberry Muffin
What makes this a Healthy Blueberry Muffin Recipe?
This recipe is made healthier by using 100% whole grain pastry flour, oat bran and flax meal, less sugar, reduced saturated fat content and adding lots of antioxidant rich berries. I’ve used blueberries, but feel free to substitute your favorite berry!
These muffins make a nice addition to the lunch box, a quick breakfast or a nice snack with a cup of tea.
This recipe makes about 18 small muffins or 12 larger muffins.
Preheat oven to 400F
Line muffin cups with recycled paper liners.
Ingredients List for Healthy Blueberry Muffins
1 Cup milk
4 Tablespoons of Grapeseed Oil
1 1/2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
2 Large Organic Free Range Eggs
1 1/2 Cups Whole Grain Pastry Flour
1/2 Cup of Oat Bran
1 Tablespoon of Flax Meal
1/2 Cup of Sugar
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
2 cups Fresh Blueberries or 1 1/2 cups Frozen Blueberries (defrosted – drain excess liquid)
Recipe Instructions
Combine wet ingredients: milk, oil, butter and eggs, and vanilla. Super time saver tip – measure your milk in a jumbo measuring cup and add your other liquid ingredients in the same cup. Saves dishes!
Combine dry ingredients: Sift flour, add sugar, oat bran, flax meal, baking powder and salt into large bowl. Shift the dry ingredients into a well shape.
Pour wet ingredients into the well you made with your dry ingredients. Fold in blueberries.
Scoop muffin mix into the prepared muffin cups. Bake until golden and toothpick comes out clean, about 15-20 minutes.
Hot Tip: Using frozen berries may result in “black-ish” dark purple muffins… not so pretty.
Prevent this setting aside 1/3 of your batter. Fill the tins with 2/3 of the dark “berry batter”. Then over top of the “berry batter” pour the reserved “berry-free batter”. Voila. Golden topped, berry filled muffins even a toddler will eat.
Thank you to my loyal twitter follower @crvjim for requesting this recipe on behalf of his wife! How sweet is he?
Please leave a comment after you’ve made the recipe – reader feedback ALWAYS makes my day! I have a number of gluten free friends – so if you make any tweaks please share them here.
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I love the idea of adding flax to the muffins. A great way to sneak a little health into a treat
Let me know if you try it out.
Hi,just wanted to tell you that your blueberry fan club has grown not just me and the Grandson anymore.Son,Daughter and Daughter-in-law and all in-laws but Teresa has just received a request from grandsons private preschool to make some for an upcoming birthday and they are really strict on outside food coming in.
Thanks again
Jim
Thank you so much for sharing with me Jim! This made my day… maybe even my week!
A tip for using frozen berries is to put them in the batter frozen. You may have to cook the muffins for a couple minutes longer to make sure the batter cooks around the berries, but it works great. No more purple muffins!