Apple streusel oatmeal muffins, healthy

These healthy apple streusel oatmeal muffins are the solid on the go breakfast (eat 2) and this is a great meal prep recipe that you can make for the week ahead. The recipe makes 8 small muffins, so if you want to make more, you can double the recipe. These healthy apple muffins are also a satisfying healthy snack if you eat only one.

Healthy Apple Streusel Oatmeal Muffins

We think this is the first baking recipe we share in a while. Living without an oven is hard, people. For the most part we rely on things like no bake cookies and one pan meals and we're not complaining.

Somehow, everyday life’s easier when you don’t need to preheat an oven. You save money on your electric bill, you don’t burn your hands as often, because you’re impatient and you don’t have to clean an entire oven once a year.

Yet, a while ago we got a vision for streusel muffins. Not a vision…more like we ate a streusel muffin at a coffee shop. This was back when we wasn’t a neurotic freak yet and didn’t look at people as if their life’s purpose is to spread germs. Sneezemuffin is an actual thing in our mind now.

So back then, we ordered one muffin and then another muffin, to make sure we like them. And then we decided we needed to make some healthier, smaller muffins at home that nobody had touched with unwashed hands. And we hoped that we will save some money too and that our home will stop smelling like cabbage.

Since we didn’t have an oven, that last one didn’t happen.

How it comes together

We had to go to our sister’s house to made the streusel muffins there. We found an old apple that our nephew had started eating, but then apparently got bored and abandoned it. Apple streusel muffins sound good to us. And they turned out satisfying.

A bit too dense and not fluffy, but satisfying nevertheless.

We knew how to make a healthy crumble with oats (see here), so we decided to use that wisdom and put it on top of these muffins. We used butter this time because for whatever reason our sister didn’t have coconut oil, but if you want to use coconut oil – it will work as well and your muffins will have a nice hint of coconut.

Then we used a hand blender aka immersion blender aka stick robot to blend a mixture that had oats, eggs, apple, vanilla, butter, cinnamon and yogurt in it.

We poured that thing into silicone muffin cups and then made the streusel. It’s simple – blend oats, some fat, something sweet and a pinch of salt. We chose butter and honey.

We formed some crumbles to top the muffins and then baked them for 20-30 minutes at 180C or 350F.

And then these were ready. We tried to eat one before they cooled off, burned our tongue and realized we never learn from past mistakes. Then we took like 50 pictures of them and here we are. Our tongue is healed and the muffins long gone, but we still remember how sweet, crumbly and satisfying they were. Okay, now the recipe.