Apple Oat Muffins

I love warm, fresh muffins on a snowy day. Preferably one when I don’t need to go outside, but you can’t have everything. It’s snowing in October and I think we need some muffins to start the day off right. So I started out with Joanne Chang’s (Flour Bakery in Boston) Good Morning Muffins recipe and changed it A LOT because we didn’t have everything in the pantry. They were sooooo good, I needed to get this one down before I forgot what I had done.

Apple Oat Muffins

1.5 apples, peeled and cored, in a small dice

1 cup oats

1 cup flour

1.5 teaspoons baking powder

1/3 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

2 eggs

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup canola oil

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup chopped bittersweet chocolate

Cream the eggs and sugar together in a mixer for a couple minutes, until light and airy. Add the oil slowly and the vanilla extract while whipping with the mixer. Combine the rest of the ingredients in a separate bowl (except the apple). Add to the wet ingredients and fold though until combined. Add in the apple and combine. Pour into a buttered muffin pan and bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let them cool for a few minutes before removing from pan.