Do I know the muffin man?

September 10, 2009 7:57 AM

Muffin Filter: I want a moist oatmeal muffin to start my morning with. Other muffin recipes gladly accepted too.

I've got a craving for tender, fluffy but not too sweet oatmeal muffins that I can fill with walnuts and raisins and serve up in the morning to deserving overnight house guests.

And I really, really like muffins, so I'd love to work with metafilter's best non-oatmeal muffin versions as well, and ideas for other things that can be mixed into muffin batter for yummy results.

posted by Phalene to food & drink (12 comments total)

We're addicted to Cooking Light's recipe for Morning Glory Muffins. I've tried them with various dried fruit & nut combinations, and my favorite is blueberries, cherries, and raisins with pecans.
posted by xsquared-1 at 8:20 AM on September 10 [1 favorite]

Not oatmeal, but this whole wheat apple muffin is very moist and delicious. I'm sure you could try to mix it up a bit and add some rolled oats, and sprinkle some nuts on top or just mix them in with the batter. Apple season yay!
posted by sararah at 9:13 AM on September 10

The best muffins I've had were the basic ones from Baking Illustrated. Moist, nice flavor, easy. I don't remember much about the recipe, except that it included sour cream. If you'd like I can look it up tonight.
posted by expialidocious at 9:16 AM on September 10 [1 favorite]

Here's an oatmeal muffin with some interesting inclusions (from a former job of mine, full disclosure): Healthy Oat Peaches & Cream Muffins.
posted by jocelmeow at 10:54 AM on September 10

These Oatmeal Blueberry Applesauce muffins are my favorite oatmeal muffins right now. You could easily fold in walnuts and raisins instead of blueberries.
posted by geeky at 11:42 AM on September 10

Another non-oatmeal muffin suggestion, but I made these last week and they were the best muffins I've ever made. Banana Crumb Muffins. Bananas are also a good fruit source of soluble fiber, (though not as much as oats or legumes) which is touted as having many health benefits including lowering cholesterol.

If not as healthy, these muffins definitely fit the bill of "very moist".

I used an extra banana and some extra spices:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 bananas, mashed
3/4 cup white sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/3 cup butter, melted (or oil)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon

topping

1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon butter

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease 10 muffin cups, or line with muffin papers.

In a large bowl, mix together 1 1/2 cups flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat together bananas, sugar, egg and melted butter. Stir the banana mixture into the flour mixture just until moistened. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.

In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour and cinnamon. Cut in 1 tablespoon butter until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal. Sprinkle topping over muffins.

Bake in preheated oven for 18 to 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.
posted by fontophilic at 11:55 AM on September 10 [2 favorites]

I just made these pumpkin apple streusel muffins the other day and they're fantastic. Very fall-y.
posted by c lion at 6:13 PM on September 10

Parent recipe: Combine 2 parts flour, 1 part sugar, and little baking soda separately from 2 parts milk, 1 part eggs, and 1 part butter. Stir both mixtures together. Bake at 350 for 10 mins.

Variant additions:
o Blueberries, Strawberries, Raspberries (any fruit really)
o Dried Cranberries and sub some milk w/ OJ
o Granny Smith Apples, Cinnamon
o Poppy seeds and sub some milk w/ Lemon
o Mashed bananas, Browned butter, Walnuts
o Curry and Cayenne, Diced Peppers. No sugar.
o Replace ¾ of flour with Corn Meal.
o Corn, Diced Jalepenos.
posted by xammerboy at 6:32 PM on September 10 [1 favorite]

Obviously pour the batter into muffin molds :-) Unless you want muffin bread, then bake in a bread tin and increase the time to 1/2 an hour. Most banana bread is muffin bread.
posted by xammerboy at 6:33 PM on September 10

Non-oatmeal muffin that I really like:

Pomegranate Ginger Muffins
posted by creepygirl at 6:35 PM on September 10

I recently made banana-oatmeal muffins (disclaimer: self-link) and they were amazingly good. They were also vegan, more or less by accident.

If you're not into banana and you don't care about the vegan aspect, you could probably replace the banana with two or three eggs and get a very similar muffin. They're also pretty easy to add stuff to--I've since made banana-oatmeal-chocolate-chip and banana-oatmeal-raspberry muffins with great success.
posted by MeghanC at 8:11 PM on September 10

I just made a few batches of these blueberry-banana-bran muffins and they're awesome. Reasonably healthy, too--whole wheat flour, oat bran, wheat bran, and the sweeteners are molasses + honey. The recipe also seems very adaptable...I threw some nuts on some of them, added some extra spice to other ones, and made twice as many muffins as the recipe called for (I like my muffins small!) and they still all came out great.
posted by ethorson at 6:43 PM on September 13