Oatmeal chocolate muffins, simple

Yes, it’s possible to make flourless oatmeal chocolate muffins that are both simple and vegan! Exhibit A: this absolutely wonderful healthy chocolate muffin recipe that nobody can resist.

Since you’re already here, grab a bowl and mix the ingredients for these satisfying plant-based chocolate muffins, they’ll be ready in no time and are great for meal prep too!

Simple Oatmeal Chocolate Muffins

It’s 8 am we're thinking of making these right after we finish writing this. You’ll be more empathetic once you try the recipe because these healthy chocolate muffins are fudgy, melty in your mouth or anyone’s mouth. They taste like a rich and famous brownie.

These chocolate oat muffins are:

• fudgy
• plant-based
• flourless
• chocolatey
• satisfying

Usually, we'd eat one of these after dinner or after lunch when we crave something sweet, but we're trying to quit coffee right now. So we made tea and we're staring at our cup of tea and it’s totally not our cup of tea, so we're crying on the inside. And the outside. Typppiiiing with tears in our eyes…Wish we actually knew the lyrics to that one.

Simple Oatmeal Chocolate Muffin Ingredients

Here are the ingredients you’ll need to make these flourless oatmeal chocolate muffins:

• fast oats
• water…you could also use plant-based milk if you’ve got a brand you like…we can’t seem to tolerate any and water is pretty great, hydration, H2O, the elixir of life, the fountain of youth…use any liquid you have that is not beer or whine or whiskey…
• cherries – or no cherries if you haven’t been hoarding some in your freezer since summer
• almond butter – natural almond butter with only almonds in it
• cacao powder
• coconut sugar
• baking soda
• chopped nuts to top
• flaxmeal or is it flax meal…

How it comes together

We honestly think it’s magic. Don’t know how these healthy chocolate muffins hold together without an egg or flour. But we don’t want to ask or come up with conspiracy theories on our own…we're just grateful these just work and making them is a simple process.

Step 1. Mix all ingredients with a fork in a bowl. Mix in this order: almond butter, coconut sugar, cacao powder, baking soda, flaxmeal and oats. Finally, add in the water, stir well and let it all sit for a while. The mixture will thicken in about 10 minutes. If you want, you can throw in some pitted cherries. We did that. You could also do some dark chocolate chunks…whatever you want. Nuts…what else…we're out of ideas. You try and come up with something good when the coffee in your hand is imaginary.

Step 2. Travel back in time and preheat your oven to 350F or 180C. Grease muffin liners with coconut oil – this will help to peel them off the muffins easily when they’re ready. Line a muffin pan with these liners and pour in the mixture, filling each cup almost to the top of the liner. Sprinkle some chopped nuts or for some extra jitters and richness – dark chocolate chunks.

Step 3. Bake for about 15-20 minutes and enjoy immediately or store in the fridge for rainy days without coffee.

And if you do drink coffee without going on guilt trips, these fudgy flourless chocolate oat muffins will be a great companion for that coffee.

Options

We love options and here we’ve got a lot of options when it comes to ingredients for these healthy oatmeal chocolate muffins:

• Use any other nut or seed butter if you don’t like almond butter – you will need to taste your batter before baking to adjust for sweetness/ bitterness
• Oats – you can also use some oat flour if you don’t have plain fast oats. If all you have is regular oats, you can grind them and use also in the recipe.
• Cherries. You can sub for any fruit you like. We recommend going for berries here, don’t feel like apple, peach or pears will be great in this recipe. You can also just be cruel and leave the cherries out, tell that cherry to her face: we don’t need you here. She won’t care, we promise.
• Nuts. We used chopped walnuts, but pecans or even almonds or, any other nuts will do.
• Coconut sugar. You can use any type of dark sugar you have available in here.