CHEAP, easy morning muffin recipe

[Horse with no Name]

I started out with a standard recipe and I have tweaked it to what we like:

1 cup flour
1 cup oatmeal
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp cinnamon
1/4 cup oil
1/4 fruit preserves (can substitute 1 egg)
1 cup fruit juice (can substitute milk)

Mix the dry ingredients...add the wet ingredients...hand mix until moist...put in well greased muffin pans...bake at 425 for 15 minutes.

Enjoy!

[Lucinda]

1. Yum. You had me at oatmeal.

I love oatmeal base baked goods and don't make them nearly enough. Thankie for the recipe.

[yellerpup]

2. I'm sure they were tasty

and I bet they were pretty, too. What kind of fruit juice did you use? Were they a pretty color?

[Horse with no Name]

3. Well to be honest

I kind of cleaned out the fridge with the last batch, but were my favorites by far. I used 1/2 cup apple juice and 1/2 cup grape juice. I used strawberry preserves. The were a pretty brownish red color.

[yellerpup]

6. Cleaning out the fridge has inspired some delicious

dishes for me. I bet they were pretty. :hi:

[Lars39]

4. These sound good!

How much fruit preserves, though?

[Horse with no Name]

5. 1/4 cup.

Gives it a really nice flavor. More than than makes it hard for them to set up properly.

[Lars39]

7. Thanks!

May try these tomorrow with some strawberry jam.:9

[KC]

8. This

sounds really good. Did you use regular old fashioned oatmeal or the quick cooking?

[Horse with no Name]

9. You can use either

It's a pretty versatile (and forgiving) recipe.

[KC]

11. Thank you

I'm going to make these this weekend!

[Coyote_Bandit]

10. Hmmmmmm.......

I'm thinking of leaving out the preserves and the fruit juice - and subbing in some applesauce and maybe adding a 1/4 cup of chopped pecans.

Or maybe an 8 ounce can of crushed pineapple with its juice.

Or maybe some crushed bannana with pineapple juice. Add some allspice and nutmeg and I could turn this into hummingbird cake muffins. Can't do that though becaue then I might think the muffins need cream cheese frosting.

Thanks for the recipe.

[csziggy]

12. A recipe I want to try makes a generic muffin batter

After you put it into the muffin tin, put about 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of preserves in each one and swirl it in with a toothpick. I told hubby we could make them and use a variety of preserves so we didn't end up with a big batch of one flavor.