Oatmeal Pecan Muffins

Here I go again with the healthy baking. I started a new job this week that I actually have to commute to. So my goal is going to be to bake some more wholesome snacks I can grab and go in the morning. And to start with we have oatmeal pecan muffins with some dried currants thrown in.



While these are on the healthier side they're still made with a bunch of brown sugar (delicious) and while it's not butter, there's a lot of oil in there... But definitely make them! They're yummy! Here it goes:

Oatmeal Pecan Muffins
Adapted from Divine Baking
Yields around 1 1/2 dozen regular size muffins

2 cups flour
1 cup oatmeal
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 1/2 cups yogurt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup dried currants (or raisins, or other dried fruit. or optional!)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line muffin pan with papers. Or, coat the muffin pan with cooking spray, your choice.
   
2. Mix together flour, oatmeal, baking powder, baking soda, salt, brown sugar, cinnamon and ground cloves in a large bowl and set aside.
3. In a mixer combine eggs, oil, yogurt and vanilla. Slowly mix in dry ingredients.
4. Stir in pecans and currants.
5. Spoon into lined or unlined muffin pan. Bake for 20 minutes.
6. Cool in pan on wire rack before turning out.
7. Store in air tight container at room temperature.

oatmeal scotchie win

This will be a short post since I'm sleepy and a little under the weather.

I'd been meaning for sometime to make oatmeal scotchie cookies from Toll House. Mostly to use up my butterscotch chips from my seven layer bars. Pretty much, when I put them in the oven to bake, they just melted. It was so sad.

I used whole wheat pastry flour since I was actually almost out of all purpose flour, but I though pastry flour was supposed to have more stick-togetherness? Whatever, either way, they melted and failed and all I did was take a really long time and a lot of effort to make my apartment smell really good.

I hate when things fail, plus I really wanted to make oatmeal cookies for Dave, but I was mad at Toll House at this point. So I found a new recipe in a book of my grandmothers and decided to go that route. It called for quick-cooking rolled oats, any my first recipe called for old-fashioned oats...hmmm... Clearly, the internet is useless because I spent about 30 min trying to find out the difference, if I could substitute, etc., and I found no satisfactory answer. So back to the store I went...

Finally oatmeal scotchie success!

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